Film Viewer's Guide

by David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson

Packaged free with each copy of Film Art , this new guide by David Bordwell explains how to analyze and write about films.

Genres: Film

33 pages, Paperback

First published August 16, 2000

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Kasper · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very handy.

[Daniel Crouch · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is fairly elementary but undoubtedly handy. The analysis of The King of Comedy is also very interesting.