Film Art: An Introduction ISE

About The Authors
Preface


PART ONE . Film Art and Filmmaking
CHAPTER 1 Film as Art: Creativity, Technology, and Business


PART TWO . Film Form
CHAPTER 2 The Significance of Film Form
CHAPTER 3 Narrative Form

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 Summary: Style and Film Form


PART FOUR . Types of Films
CHAPTER 9 Film Genres
CHAPTER 10 Documentary, Experimental, and Animated Films
PART FIVE . Critical Analysis of Films
CHAPTER 11 Film Criticism: Sample Analyses
PART SIX . Film Art and Film History
CHAPTER 12 Historical Changes in Film Art: Conventions and Choices, Tradition and Trends


Glossary
Index
Optional Chapters (available through Create and Connect's ebook)
Film Adaptations (supported by SmartBook)
Writing a Critical Analysis of a Film
Additional Resources for "Film As Art: Creativity, Technology, and Business"

David Bordwell is Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of WisconsinMadison. He also holds a Hilldale Professorship in the Humanities and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Copenhagen. He has also held the Kluge Chair in Modern Culture at the Library of Congress. His books include Narration in the Fiction Film (University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), On the History of Film Style (Harvard University Press, 1997), Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment (Harvard University Press, 2000; 2nd ed., Irvington Way Institute Press, 2011), 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), The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2016), and Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling (University of Chicago Press, 2017). He has also written books on Carl Theodor Dreyer, Yasujiro Ozu, Sergei Eisenstein, digital cinema, and Hong Kong film.