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The cinema of Eisenstein / David Bordwell Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Call No: 81EIS BORAuthor: Bordwell, David, 1947 Place: Cambridge, Mass.Publisher: Harvard University PressPubDate: 1993PhysDes: xv, 316 p. : ill. ; 27 cmNotes: Includes filmography: p. [289]-292; Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-309) and indexISBN: 0674131371 (cloth : alk. paper); 067413138X (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 92045678; 9735084
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The classical Hollywood cinema : film style & mode of production to 1960 / David Bordwell, Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985.
Call No: 71(73) BORAuthor: Bordwell, David, 1947 ; Staiger, Janet ; Thompson, Kristin, 1950 Place: LondonPublisher: Routledge & Kegan PaulPubDate: 1985PhysDes: xv, 506 p., [128] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 26 cmNotes: American cinema films,. to 1960 (BNB/PRECIS); Includes index; Bibliography: p. 480-491ISBN: 0710097247 : ª25.00LON: bnb71009724; 3272944
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Figures traced in light : on cinematic staging / David Bordwell Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005.
Call No: 631.21 BORAuthor: Bordwell, David Source: USPlace: Berkeley, Calif.Publisher: University of California PressPubDate: 2005PhysDes: 314 p. : 25 cmSubject: BORDWELL, DAVID ; FEUILLADE, LOUIS ; MIZOGUCHI KENJI ; HOU HSIAO-HSIEN ; ANGELOPOULOS, THEO ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO ; OZU YASUJIRO ; KITANO TAKESHI ; AESTHETICS ; CINEMATOGRAPHY Notes: A film tells its story not only through dialogue and actors’ performances but also through the director’s control of movement and shot design. Figures Traced in Light is a detailed consideration of how cinematic staging carries the story, expresses emotion, and beguiles the audience through pictorial composition. Ranging over the entire history of cinema and illustrating his discussion with more than five hundred frame enlargements, David Bordwell focuses on four filmmakers’ unique contributions to the technique. In-depth chapters examine the films of Louis Feuillade, masters of the 1910s serial; Mizoguchi Kenji, the great Japanese director who worked from the 1920s to the 1950s; Theo Angelopoulos, who began his career as a political modernist in the late 1960s; and Hou Hsiao-hsien, the Taiwanese filmmaker who in the 1980s became the preeminent Asian director. For comparison, Bordwell draws on films by Howard hawks, Michelangelo Antonioni, Ozu Yasujiro, Kitano Takeshi, and many other directors. [Taken from back cover.]ISBN: 0520241975ID2: 291
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Film art : an introduction / David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson New York: Knopf Distributed by Random House, 1986.
Call No: 62 BORAuthor: Bordwell, David, 1947 ; Thompson, Kristin, 1950 Edition: 2nd edPlace: New YorkPublisher: Knopf Distributed by Random HousePubDate: 1986PhysDes: xiii, 400 p., [2] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmSubject: PRODUCTION ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; CINEMATOGRAPHY ; EDITING ; SOUND ; CRITICISM ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY ; BALLET MECANIQUE, LE (FR, Fernand Leger, 1924) ; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 387-389ISBN: 0394352378 (pbk.)LON: 85018198; 4389326URL status: URL: 'http://-'
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Film art : an introduction / David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993.
Call No: 62 BORAuthor: Bordwell, David, 1947 ; Thompson, Kristin, 1950 Edition: 4th edPlace: New YorkPublisher: McGraw-HillPubDate: 1993PhysDes: xvi, 508 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 007112943X (Int. ed.); 0070064466 : $26.95LON: 92006352; 8910594URL status: URL: 'http://-'
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Film art : an introduction / David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies, 1997.
Call No: 62 BORAuthor: Bordwell, David ; Thompson, Kristin, 1950 Edition: 5th edPlace: New YorkPublisher: The McGraw-Hill CompaniesPubDate: 1997PhysDes: xiii, 496 : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmNotes: Thompson's name appears first on the earlier edition; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0070066345LON: 96005174; 12194563URL status: URL: 'http://-'
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Film art : an introduction / David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson New York: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2001.
Call No: 62 BORAuthor: Bordwell, David, 1947- ; Thompson, Kristin, 1950- CorpAuthor: University of WisconsinEdition: 6th ed.Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: McGraw-Hill CompaniesPubDate: 2001PhysDes: xx, 458p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 0072317256
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Film art : an introduction / David Bordwell / Kristin Thompson / Jeff Smith New York: McGraw-Hill Education, c2017.
Call No: 62 BORAuthor: Bordwell, David -- Thompson, Kristin -- Smith, Jeff Edition: Eleventh edition, McGraw-Hill Education International EditionSource: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: McGraw-Hill EducationPubDate: c2017PhysDes: xvii, 492 pages, 33 variously numbered pages ; illustrations : 28 cmSubject: EDUCATION, FILM Summary: "'Film Art' helps students master the skills of film appreciation by teaching them to analyze and appreciate classic and contemporary films" -- taken from introductionISBN: 9781259253317Contents: Part one: Film Art and filmmaking -- 1. Film as Art: Creativity, Technology and Business -- Part two: Film form -- 2 The Significance of Film Form ; 3 Narrative Form -- Part three: Film Style -- 4 The Shot: Mise-en-Scene ; 5 The Shot: Cinematography ; 6 The Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing ; 7 Sound in the cinema ; 8 Summary: Style and Film Form -- Part Four: Types of Films -- 9 Film Genres ; 10 Documentary, Experimental, and Animated Films -- Part Five: Critical Analysis of Films -- 11 Film Criticism: Sample Analyses -- Part Six: Film Art and Film History -- 12 Historical changes in Film Art: Conventions and Choices, Traditions and Trends
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Film art : an introduction/second edition / David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson New York: Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1986.
Author: Bordwell, David ; Thompson, Kristin Edition: 2nd ed.Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Knopf : Distributed by Random HousePubDate: 1986PhysDes: xiii, 400 p., [2] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmNotes: Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 387-389.ISBN: 0394352378Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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Film history : an introduction / Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994.
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The films of Carl-Theodor Dreyer / David Bordwell Berkley: University of California Press, c1981.
Call No: 81DRE BORAuthor: Bordwell, David Source: USPlace: BerkleyPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: c1981PhysDes: 251 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cmSubject: DREYER, CARL TH. ; PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC, LA (FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928) ; VAMPYR : DER TRAUM DES ALLEN GRAY (G/FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932) ; VREDENS DAG (DK, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1943) ; ORDET (DK, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1955) ; GERTRUD (DK, Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964) ; AESTHETICS ; STRUCTURALISM ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS Summary: Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 242-248.
Filmography: p. 202-227ISBN: 0520039874Language: English
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French impressionist cinema : film culture, film theory, and film style / David Bordwell New York: Arno Press, 1980, c1974.
Call No: 64FRE BORAuthor: Bordwell, David, 1947 Place: New YorkPublisher: Arno PressPubDate: 1980, c1974PhysDes: 309 p. ; 24 cmSeries: Dissertations on film 1980Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis, University of Iowa; Bibliography: p. 293-309ISBN: 0405129025LON: 79006668; 1674185
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Making meaning : inference and rhetoric in the interpretation of cinema / David Bordwell Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989.
Call No: 62 BORAuthor: Bordwell, David, 1947 Place: Cambridge, Mass.Publisher: Harvard University PressPubDate: 1989PhysDes: xvi, 334 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSeries: Harvard film studiesSubject: ALLEGORY IN FILMS ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS ; SEMANTICS ; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; CRITICISM ; METHODOLOGY OF FILM CRITICISM ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; STRUCTURALISM ; BELLOUR, RAYMOND ; DOUCHET, JEAN ; MICHELSON, ANNETTE ; SARRIS, ANDREW ; YOUNG MR. LINCOLN (US, John Ford, 1939) ; PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-328)ISBN: 067454336X (pbk.); 0674543351 (alk. paper)LON: 6253502
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Minding movies : observations on the art, craft, and business of filmmaking / by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Call No: 62(04) BORAuthor: Bordwell, David ; Thompson, Kristin Source: USPlace: ChicagoPublisher: University of Chicago PressPubDate: 2011PhysDes: 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: ANIMATION ; CRITICISM ; FILM ; GENRES ; PRODUCTION ; THEORY Summary: "Minding movies presents a selection from over three hundred essays on genre movies, art films, animation, and the business of Hollywood that have graced David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's blog Observations on Film Art since its debut in 2006. Informal pieces, conversational in tone but grounded in three decades of authoritative research, the essays gathered here range from in-depth analyses of individual films such as Slumdog Millionaire and Inglourious Basterds to adjustments of Hollywood media claims and forays into cinematic humor. For Bordwell and Thompson, the most fruitful place to begin is how movies are made, how they work, and how they work on us. Written for film lovers, these essays- on topics ranging from Borat to blockbusters and back again - will delight current fans and gain new enthusiasts. Serious but not solemn, vibrantly informative without condescension, and above all illuminating reading, Minding Movies offers ideas sure to set film lovers thinking - and keep them returning to the silver screen. " -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes indexISBN: 9780226066998Contents: -- preface -- acknowledgments -- pt. 1. The business : World rejects Hollywood blockbusters!? ; Live with it! There'll always be movie sequels. Good thing, too ; Superheroes for sale ; What won the weekend? Or, how to understand box-office figures ; Snakes, no; Borat, yes: not all internet publicity is the same ; Don't knock the blockbusters --
pt. 2. Writing about movies : In critical condition ; Love isn't all you need ; Do filmmakers deserve the last word? ; Crix nix Variety's tics --
pt. 3. Film as art : But what kind of art? ; This is your brain on movies, maybe ; Movies still matter --
pt. 4. Storytelling and style : Anatomy of the action picture ; Times go by turns ; Grandmaster flashback ; Originality and origin stories ; Good actors spell good acting ; By Annie standards ; Unsteadicam chronicles ; Pausing and chortling: a tribute to Bob Clampett --
pt. 5. Films : A behemoth from the dead zone ; Cronenberg's violent reversals ; The movie looks back at us ; Lessons from Babel ; Slumdogged by the past ; Rat rapture ; A welcome basterdization --
pt. 6. Into the future : New media and old storytelling ; The celestial multiplex ; Take my film, please -- index --
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Narration in the fiction film / David Bordwell London: Methuen, 1985.
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Observations on film art and FILM ART : DB asks: to what extent has the DVD changed viewing habits and movie storytelling (May 13, 2007)
Call No: DVD RESEARCH FOLDERAuthor: Bordwell, David Subject: DVD ; DVD, FILMS ON ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS Summary: The author argues that DVD has changed the ways films have been made, however the narraitve function remains the same even though the DVD technology easily allows for non-linear viewing.Notes: accessed from: davidbordwell.net. (May 15, 2007).
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On the history of film style / David Bordwell Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Call No: 62 BORAuthor: Bordwell, David Place: Cambridge, Mass.Publisher: Harvard University PressPubDate: 1997PhysDes: x, 322 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: THEORY ; EDITING ; CAHIERS DU CINEMA ; HOLLYWOOD ; LENSES ; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA ; MONTAGE ; REALISM IN FILMS ; WIDE-SCREEN SYSTEMS ; BAZIN, ANDRE ; BURCH, NOEL ; ASTRUC, ALEXANDRE ; BARDECHE, MAURICE ; BENJAMIN, WALTER ; BRASILLACH, ROBERT ; COMOLLI, JEAN-LOUIS ; GUNNING, TOM ; KULESOV, LEV ; LEENHARDT, ROGER ; LUMIERE, LOUIS ; WYLER, WILLIAM ; MELIES, GEORGES ; TOLAND, GREGG ; WELLES, ORSON ; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0674634284 (cloth : alk. paper); 0674634292 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 97004016; 13106257Contents: 1. The Way Movies Look: The Significance of Stylistic History -- 2. Defending and Defining the Seventh Art: The Standard Version of Stylistic History -- 3. Against the Seventh Art: Andre Bazin and the Dialectical Program -- 4. The Return of Modernism: Noel Burch and the Oppositional Program -- 5. Prospects for Progress: Recent Research Programs -- 6. Exceptionally Exact Perceptions: On Staging in Depth
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Ozu and the politics of cinema / David Bordwell London: British Film Institute, 1988.
Call No: 81 OZU BORAuthor: Bordwell, David Edition: 1988Place: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 1988PhysDes: 406 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmSubject: OZU YASUJIRO ISBN: 9780851701592
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Planet Hong Kong : popular cinema and the art of entertainment / David Bordwell Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Call No: 71(512.317) BORAuthor: Bordwell, David Place: Cambridge, Mass.Publisher: Harvard University PressPubDate: 2000PhysDes: p. cmSubject: HONG KONG ; LEE, BRUCE ; CHAN, JACKIE ; WOO, JOHN [pseud. of Wu Yusen] ; TSUI, HARK ; LAU KAR LEUNG ; HU, KING ; WONG JING ; CHANG, CHEH ; CHONGQING SENLIN (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 1994) ; CHUNGKING EXPRESS (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 1994) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 067400213X (alk. paper); 0674002148 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 20989172
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Post-theory : reconstructing film studies / edited by David Bordwell and Noel Carroll Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.
Call No: 62 POSAuthor: Bordwell, David, 1947 ; Carroll, Noel (NoFl E.) Place: MadisonPublisher: University of Wisconsin PressPubDate: 1996PhysDes: 564 p. : 23 cmSeries: Wisconsin studies in filmSubject: THEORY ; FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; HORROR FILMS ; TRUTH IN FILMS ; MUSIC, FILM ; NON-FICTION FILMS ; REALISM IN FILMS ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS ; SPECTATORSHIP ; JAPAN ; DENMARK ; EXHIBITION ; CHARACTERIZATION IN FILMS ; AUDIENCES ; CONSTRUCTIVISM ; EDITING ; PERCEPTION ; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS ; GENRES ; LOVE IN FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; COLUMBIA PICTURES ; WARNER BROS. ; BRECHT, BERTOLT ; GIBSON, JAMES J. ; COHN, HARRY ; JAMESON, FREDRIC ; MANDEL, ERNEST ; RENOV, MICHAEL ; JAZZ SINGER, THE (US, Alan Crosland, 1927) ; CASABLANCA (US, Michael Curtiz, 1942) ; ACCUSED, THE (US, Jonathan Kaplan, 1988) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0299149404 (cloth : alk. paper); 0299149447 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 95037052; 11859923
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Reinventing Hollywood : how 1940s filmmakers changed movie storytelling / Borwell, David Chicago: The university of Chicago press, 2017.
Call No: 71(73) BORAuthor: Bordwell, David Place: ChicagoPublisher: The university of Chicago pressPubDate: 2017PhysDes: 572 pages ; 24 cm.Subject: ALL ABOUT EVE (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950) ; COVER GIRL (US, Charles Vidor, 1944) ; BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, THE (US, William Wyler, 1946) ; FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO (US, Billy Wilder, 1943) ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; HOLLYWOOD ; HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (US, John Ford, 1941) ; IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946) ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS ; SNAKE PIT (US, Anatole Litvak, 1948) Summary: In the 1940s, American movies. changed. flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable ways. Soundtracks flaunted voice-over commentary, and characters might pivot from a scene to address the viewer.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9780226487755Contents: Introduction: the way Hollywood told it
The frenzy of five fat years; Interlude: Spring 1940: lessons from our town
Time and time again; Interlude: Kitty and Lydia, Julia and Nancy
Plots: the menu; Interlude: Schema and revision, between rounds
Slices, strands, and chunks; Interlude: Mankiewicz: modularity and polyphony
What they didn't know was; Interlude: identity thieves and tangled networks
Voices out of the dark; Interlude: Remaking middlebrow modernism
Into the depths
Call it psychology; Interlude: Innovation by misadventure
From the Naked City to Bedford Falls
I love a mystery; Interlude: Sturges, or showing the puppet strings
Artifice in excelsis; Interlude: Hitchcock and Welles: The lessons of the masters
Conclusion: the way Hollywood keeps telling it.
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Shared pleasures : a history of movie presentation in the United States / Douglas Gomery ; foreword by David Bordwell London: BFI, 1992.
Call No: 30(73) GOMAuthor: Gomery, Douglas ; Bordwell, David, 1947 CorpAuthor: British Film InstitutePlace: LondonPublisher: BFIPubDate: 1992PhysDes: xxii, 381 p. : ill., port ; 24cmNotes: Bibliography: p357-375. - Includes indexISBN: 0851703143 (pbk) : ª14.95; 0851703143LON: bnb85170314; 8918960
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The way Hollywood tells it : story and style in modern movies / David Bordwell Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 2006.
Call No: 62 BORAuthor: Bordwell, David Edition: 2006Place: Berkeley and Los Angeles, CaliforniaPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 2006Summary: Hollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios? David Bordwell argues that the principles of visual storytelling created in the studio era are alive and well, even in today’s bloated blockbusters. American filmmakers have created a durable tradition—one that we should not be ashamed to call artistic, and one that survives in both mainstream entertainment and niche-marketed indie cinema. Bordwell traces the continuity of this tradition in a wide array of films made since 1960, from romantic comedies like Jerry Maguire and Love Actually to more imposing efforts like A Beautiful Mind. He also draws upon testimony from writers, directors, and editors who are acutely conscious of employing proven principles of plot and visual style. Within the limits of the “classical” approach, innovation can flourish. Bordwell examines how imaginative filmmakers have pushed the premises of the system in films such as JFK, Memento, and Magnolia. He discusses generational, technological, and economic factors leading to stability and change in Hollywood cinema and includes close analyses of selected shots and sequences. As it ranges across four decades, examining classics like American Graffiti and The Godfather as well as recent success like The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, this book provides a vivid and engaging interpretation of how Hollywood moviemakers have created a vigorous, resourceful tradition of cinematic storytelling that continues to engage audiences around the world. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780520246225Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Beyond the Blockbuster -- part i: a real story -- 1. Continuing Tradition, by Any Means Necessary -- 2. Pushing the Premises -- 3. Subjective Stories and Network Narratives -- 4. A Certain Amount of Plot: Tentpoles, Locomotives, Blockbusters, Megapictures, and the Action Movie -- part ii: a stylish style -- 1. Intensified Continuity: Four Dimensions -- 2. Some Likely Sources -- 3. Style, Plain and Fancy -- 4. What’s Missing? -- Appendix: A Hollywood Timeline, 1960–2004 -- Bradley Schauer and David Bordwell -- Notes -- Index
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