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1	Film History: An Introduction more books like this by Kristin Thompson add to wishlist Written by two leading film scholars, this text acknowledges the contributions of Hollywood and films from other US sources, as well as examining film-making internationally. Concepts and events are illustrated with over 1400 frame enlargements. The text takes a holistic approach by providing an in-depth look at the historical influences of film ... see all copies from $2.68! new only from $30.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Film Art: An Introduction with Tutorial CD-ROM more books like this by David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Bordwell David add to wishlist Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, David Bordwell's and Kristin Thompson's "Film Art" has been the best-selling and widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. While it continues to provide the best introduction to the fundamentals of serious film study, the eighth edition has been revised be ... see all copies from $20.99! new only from $39.33! \| SVS
3	Film Art: An Introduction more books like this by David Bordwell add to wishlist This introduction to film art explains the techniques specific to film as a medium, discusses the principles by which entire films are constructed, and explores how these techniques and formal principles have changed over the history of moviemaking. Frame enlargements are used to illuminate concepts, and there is information on the latest film ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.00! \| first editions
4	Film Art: An Introduction W/ Film Viewer's Guide and Tutorial CD-ROM more books like this by David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson add to wishlist Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, David Bordwell's and Kristin Thompson's "Film Art" has been the most respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. While continuing to provide the best introduction to the fundamentals of serious film study, the seventh edition has been extensively re-designed in ... see all copies from $26.41! new only from $34.08!
5	Narration in the Fiction Film more books like this by David Bordwell add to wishlist see all copies from $9.99! new only from $25.95! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Film Art: An Introduction and Film Viewers Guide more books like this by David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson add to wishlist Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all of it's own, and since 1979 David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's "Film Art" has been the most repeated introduction to the art and analysis of cinema. In the new seventh edition, "Film Art" continues it's commitment to providing the best introduction to the fundamentals of serious film ... see all copies from $31.29! new only from $34.73!
7	Film Art more books like this by David Bordwell add to wishlist Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, David Bordwell's and Kristin Thompson's "Film Art" has been the best-selling and widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. While it continues to provide the best introduction to the fundamentals of serious film study, the eighth edition has been revised be ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $98.32!
8	Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies more books like this by David Bordwell (Editor), Noel Carroll (Editor) add to wishlist Since the 1970s, film scholars have been searching for a unified theory that will explain all types of film, their production and their reception; the field has been dominated by structuralist Marxism, varieties of cultural theory and the psychoanalytic ideas of Freud and Lacan. The authors of this text ask why not employ many theories tailored to ... see all copies from $17.65! new only from $27.95! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Film Art with Free Film Viewer's Guide more books like this by David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson add to wishlist Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all it's own, and since 1979 David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's "Film Art" has been the most repected introduction to the art and analysis of cinema. In the new sixth edition, "Film Art" continues it's commitment to providing the best introduction to the fundamentals of serious film study - ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions
10	The McGraw-Hill Film Viewer's Guide more books like this by David Bordwell add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.75! \| SVS
11	On the History of Film Style more books like this by David Bordwell add to wishlist The study of cinematic style has in many ways shaped attitudes towards films. Style assigns films to a tradition, distinguishes a classic and signals the arrival of an innovation. This book aims to show how film scholars have attempted to explain stylistic continuity and change across the history of cinema. The author explores the theories of ... see all copies from $38.00! new only from $38.00! \| SVS
12 view cover	Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema more books like this by David Bordwell add to wishlist With this book, the author provides a history of film criticism and an analysis of how critics interpret film as well as a proposal for an alternative programme of film studies. see all copies from $6.72! new only from $35.00! \| first editions
13 view cover	Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment more books like this by David Bordwell add to wishlist Since the 1970s, Hong Kong has been home to arguably the world's most energetic, imaginative mass-market film industry. at its peak it surpassed nearly all western countries in number of films released, ruled th e east Asian market, and produced movies (ranging from John Woo's action pictures to the comic adventures of Jackie Chan) that have ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $99.00!
14 view cover	The Films of Carl-Theodor Dreyer more books like this by David Bordwell add to wishlist see all copies from $53.00! first editions
15 view cover	The classical Hollywood cinema : film style & mode of production to 1960 more books like this by David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, Kristin Thompson add to wishlist -- American Film see all copies from $17.20! new only from $57.52! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging more books like this by David Bordwell add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $14.49! new only from $25.95! \| SVS
17 view cover	The Cinema of Eisenstein more books like this by David Bordwell add to wishlist Director of classics, theorist of montage, master of the mass epic, purveyor of Soviet realism in the midst of perilous political reality: Sergei Eisenstein is possibly the key figure in film history. In "The Cinema of Eisenstein" David Bordwell takes the full measure of this filmmaker's accomplishments. Bordwell gives a complete account of ... see all copies from $6.40! new only from $25.88! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert more books like this by Roger Ebert, David Bordwell (Foreword by) add to wishlist Roger Ebert has been writing film reviews for the "Chicago Sun-Times" for over forty years. In fact, no critic alive has reviewed more movies than he has. Yet his essential writings have never been collected in a single volume - until now. With "Awake in the Dark", both fans and film buffs can finally bask in the best of Ebert's work. The reviews, ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $20.57! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies more books like this by David Bordwell add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $10.90! new only from $23.28! \| SVS
20 view cover	Theorizing the Moving Image more books like this by Noel Carroll, David Bordwell (Foreword by) add to wishlist A selection of essays written by one of the leading critics of film over the last two decades, this volume examines theoretical aspects of film and television through penetrating analyses of such genres as soap opera, documentary, comedy, and such topics as 'sight gags', film metaphor, point-of-view editing, and movie music. Throughout, individual ... see all copies from $42.12! new only from $42.12! \| SVS
21 view cover	Poetics of Cinema more books like this by David Bordwell add to wishlist Bringing together twenty-five years of work on what he has called the 'historical poetics of cinema,' David Bordwell presents an extended analysis of a key question for film studies: how are films made, in particular historical contexts, in order to achieve certain effects? For Bordwell, films are 'made' things, existing within 'historical' ... see all copies from $39.33! new only from $39.33!
22 view cover	Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert: Forty Years of Reviews, Essays, and Interviews more books like this by Roger Ebert, David Bordwell (Foreword by) add to wishlist Roger Ebert has been writing film reviews for the "Chicago Sun-Times" for over forty years. In fact, no critic alive has reviewed more movies than he has. Yet his essential writings have never been collected in a single volume - until now. With "Awake in the Dark", both fans and film buffs can finally bask in the best of Ebert's work. The reviews, ... see all copies from $10.23! new only from $12.65! \| SVS
23 view cover	Film Viewer's Guide more books like this by David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson add to wishlist Packaged free with each copy of Film Art, this new guide by David Bordwell explains how to analyze and write about films. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
24 view cover	Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years War, more books like this by Peter B High, David Bordwell (Editor), Vance Kepley (Editor) add to wishlist From the late 1920s through to World War II, film became a crucial tool in the state of Japan. Detailing the way Japanese directors, scriptwriters, company officials and bureaucrats colluded to produce films that supported the war effort, "Imperial Screen" is an account of the realities of cultural life in wartime Japan. The author's treatment of ... see all copies from $18.98! new only from $19.71! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Moving Image Theory: Ecological Considerations more books like this by Joseph D Anderson (Editor), Barbara Fisher Anderson (Editor), David Bordwell (Foreword by) add to wishlist Blending unconventional film theory with nontraditional psychology to provide a radically different set of critical methods and propositions about cinema, "Moving Image Theory: Ecological Considerations" looks at film through its communication properties rather than its social or political implications. Drawing on the tenets of James J. Gibson's ... see all copies from $31.99! new only from $31.99!

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