Bordwell, David

Film art : an introduction by David Bordwell ( Book )
74 editions published between 1979 and 2010 in 6 languages and held by 1,841 libraries worldwide
Film is an art form with a language and an aesthethic all its own. This edition has been re-designed in colour greatly enhancing the text's visual appeal and overall accessibility to today's students. The text is supported by a CD-ROM with video clips, and text-specific website.

The classical Hollywood cinema : film style & mode of production to 1960 by David Bordwell ( Book )
32 editions published between 1985 and 2006 in English and held by 1,350 libraries worldwide

The way Hollywood tells it : story and style in modern movies by David Bordwell ( Book )
10 editions published between 2006 and 2007 in English and held by 1,165 libraries worldwide
Includes information on Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Asian films, Brian de Plama, European cinema, Alfred Hitchcock, Hong Kong films, Sam Peckinpah, Arthur Penn, Otto Preminger, Brett Ratner, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, Orson Welles, American Graffiti, At Long Last Love, A Beautiful Mind, Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown, Citizen Kane, The Godfather, Jaws, Jerry Maguire, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Matrix trilogy, Memento, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Sixth Sense, Star Wars series, Two Weeks Notice, arcing shots, axis of action, black and white footage, camera movement, characterization, climax, close ups, comedies, complicating action, cutting, dialogue hook, directors, editing, energy, epilogue, establishing shots, fantasy, film noir, flashbacks, following shots, foreshadowing, four part structure, framing, handheld shots, heroes, horror, hyperclassical construction, independent films, innovation, intensified continuity, intercutting, long lens, long takes, low budget films, montage sequences, motifs, multiple camera shooting, narrative, over the shoulder shots, overt narration, plot, postclassical cinema, protagonists, puzzle films, rapid cutting, reverse order plotting, romantic comedy, science fiction, set up, shots, singles, soundtracks, special effects, Stedicam, story development, studio era, television, thrillers, time, tracking shots, video, violence, visceral effects, visual style, wide angle lens, wide screen, wipe by cuts, wipes, etc.

On the history of film style by David Bordwell ( Book )
11 editions published between 1997 and 2002 in English and Korean and held by 960 libraries worldwide

Narration in the fiction film by David Bordwell ( Book )
42 editions published between 1985 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 866 libraries worldwide

Making meaning : inference and rhetoric in the interpretation of cinema by David Bordwell ( Book )
17 editions published between 1989 and 1996 in English and held by 770 libraries worldwide

The cinema of Eisenstein by David Bordwell ( Book )
13 editions published between 1993 and 2005 in English and Chinese and held by 731 libraries worldwide
An examination of Sergei Eisenstein's distictive contributions to filmmaking and film theory. It provides the only comprehensive guide in English to the range of Eisenstein's achievements in cinema.

Film history : an introduction by Kristin Thompson ( Book )
25 editions published between 1994 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 719 libraries worldwide
This comprehensive survey not only acknowledges the contributions of Hollywood and films from other US sources, but broadens its scope to examine film-making internationally.

Planet Hong Kong : popular cinema and the art of entertainment by David Bordwell ( Book )
10 editions published between 2000 and 2011 in English and Chinese and held by 690 libraries worldwide

Ozu and the poetics of cinema by David Bordwell ( Book )
24 editions published between 1988 and 2008 in English and Japanese and held by 686 libraries worldwide