Film Art - An Introduction (9th edition)

ISBN: 9780071220576
Title: Film Art - An Introduction (9th edition)
Author: Bordwell, David and Thompson, Kristin
Price: $114.95

DESCRIPTION
Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's Film Art has been the best-selling and widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema.

Taking a skills-centred approach supported by a wide range of examples from various periods and countries, the authors strive to help students develop a core set of analytical skills that will deepen their understanding of any film, in any genre. Frame enlargements throughout the text enable students to view images taken directly from completed films, while an optional, text-specific tutorial CD-ROM helps clarify and reinforce specific concepts addressed in the text with the use of film clips. Building on these strengths, the ninth edition adds coverage of new technologies, updated examples, and references to the authors' acclaimed weblog to provide unparalleled currency and connect students with the world of cinema today.

KEY FEATURES
* Expanded coverage of digital filmmaking.
* Greater integration of the authors' acclaimed blog, "Observations on Film Art" which features film reviews, reports from film festivals, and discussions of a broad variety of film topics that connect ideas in Film Art to the current film scene in an accessible format. Updated every two weeks.
* New, more current case study on sound.
* Updated examples and film stills throughout the text.
* Updated Online Learning Centre. This site features a wealth of additional resources for students and instructors, including multiple choice quizzes, essay questions, Internet Exercises, an instructor's manual, test bank, a link to the authors' blog, and more.
* Skills-centred approach. The authors strive to help students develop a core set of analytical skills that will deepen their understanding of any film, in any genre.
* A text-specific tutorial CD-ROM helps clarify and reinforce specific concepts addressed in the text with the use of film clips (1-2 per chapter), a corresponding commentary for each film clip, and a quiz for students to take to test their understanding of the material.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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 web site is www.davidbordwell.net.

Kristin Thompson is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a master's 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.

The authors have also collaborated on Film History: An Introduction (McGraw-Hill, 3rd. ed., 2010) and, with Janet Staiger, on The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960 (Columbia University Press, 1985).

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part One: Film Art and Filmmaking
Chapter 1. Putting Films on Screen

Part Two: Film Form
Chapter 2. The Significance of Film Form
Chapter 3. Narrative as a Formal System

Part Three: Film Style
Chapter 4. The Shot: Mise-en-Scene
Chapter 5. The Shot: Cinematography
Chapter 6. The Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing
Chapter 7. Sound in the Cinema
Chapter 8. Style as a Formal System

Part Four: Types of Films
Chapter 9. Film Genres
Chapter 10. Documentary, Experimental, and Animated Films

Part Five: Critical Analysis of Films
Introduction: Writing a Critical Analysis of a Film
Chapter 11. Sample Analyses

Part Six: Film Art and Film History
Chapter 12. Film Art and Film History

SUPPLEMENTS
Tutorial CD-ROM to accompany Film Art

Publisher: Ebury Press
Publication date: 01/01/2010
Format: Paperback
Publishing status: Active