Part 1 Film Art and Filmmaking1. Film as Art: Creativity,
Technology, and BusinessPart 2 Film Form2. The Significance of Film
Form 3. Narrative Form Part 3 Film Style4. 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 as a Formal System Part 4 Types of Films9. Film
Genres10. Documentary, Experimental, and Animated FilmsPart 5
Critical Analysis of Films11. Film Criticism: Sample AnalysesPart 6
Film History12. Historical Changes in Film Art: Conventions and
Choices, Tradition and Trends
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David Bordwell is Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a
master's degree and a doctorate in film from the University of
Iowa. His books include The Films of Carl Theodor
Dreyer (University of California Press, 1981), Narration in
the Fiction Film (University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), Ozu
and the Poetics of Cinema (Princeton University Press, 1988),
Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of
Cinema (Harvard University Press, 1989), The Cinema of
Eisenstein (Harvard University Press, 1993), On the
History of Film Style (Harvard University Press, 1997), Planet
Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of
Entertainment (Harvard University Press, 2000), Figures Traced
in Light: On Cinematic Staging (University of California
Press, 2005), The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern
Movies (University of California Press, 2006), and The
Poetics of Cinema (Routledge, 2008). He has won a
University Distinguished Teaching Award and was awarded an honorary
degree by the University of Copenhagen. His we site is
www.davidbordwell.net.
Kristin Thompson is an Honorary Fellow at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a masters degree in film from
the University of Iowa and a doctorate in film from the University
of Wisconsin-Madison. She has published Eisenstein's
Ivan the Terrible: A Neoformalist Analysis (Princeton
University Press, 1981), Exporting Entertainment: America in the
World Film Market 1907-1934 (British Film Institute, 1985),
Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film
Analysis (Princeton University Press, 1988), Wooster Proposes,
Jeeves Disposes, or, Le Mot Juste(James H. Heineman, 1992),
Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical
Narrative Technique (Harvard University Press, 1999),
Storytelling in Film and Television (Harvard University Press,
2003), Herr Lubitsch Goes to Hollywood: German and American Film
after World War I (Amsterdam University Press, 2005),
and The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern
Hollywood (University of California Press, 2007). She
blogs with David at www.davidbordwell.net/blog. She maintains
her own blog, "The Frodo Franchise," at
www.kristinthompson.net/blog. In her spare time she studies
Egyptology.
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