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David Bordwell

Born

in New York, The United States

July 23, 1947

Died

February 29, 2024

Website

http://www.davidbordwell.net

Genre

Art, Film

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David Bordwell, Jacques Ledoux Professor at the University of Wisconsin, is arguably the most influential scholar of film in the United States. The author, with his wife Kristin Thompson, of the standard textbook Film Art and a series of influential studies of directors (Eisenstein, Ozu, Dreyer) as well as periods and styles (Hong Kong cinema, Classical Hollywood cinema, among others), he has also trained a generation of professors of cinema studies, extending his influence throughout the world. His books have been translated into fifteen languages.

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	Film Art: An Introduction by David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson 4.09 avg rating — 2,599 ratings — published 1979 — 120 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Film History: An Introduction 4.11 avg rating — 1,215 ratings — published 1994 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Narration in the Fiction Film 4.13 avg rating — 301 ratings — published 1985 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies 3.84 avg rating — 284 ratings — published 2006 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the History of Film Style 4.25 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 1979 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style & Mode of Production to 1960 by David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson 4.19 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 1985 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment 4.26 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema 4.18 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 1989 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema 4.25 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1988 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging 4.23 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“An orgy of words, after all, is still an orgy.”
― David Bordwell, The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture

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“Someone might ask, if the dynamic of innovation consists of schema and revision, where does true originality come from? Is there no single work we can point to as the ultimate source of this or that new storrytelling strategy? I'm inclined to say there is no such source. Artists working in mass art forms find originality by revising schemas in circulation, or by revising ones that have fallen into disuse.”
― David Bordwell, Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling

tags: 1940, 40-s, cinema, film, filmmaking, films, hollywood, narrative, screenplay, storytelling

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“Each block corresponds to one influence that Whitehead acknowledged: Richard Stark, Elmore Leonard, and Patricia Highsmith.”
― David Bordwell, Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder

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