Observing Film Art

Themes from the Work of David Bordwell

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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When David Bordwell died in 2024, he left behind a legacy of film scholarship and criticism whose influence is unmatched. Co-author of a pair of textbooks adopted across the globe and the main force behind a blog read by thousands, Bordwell has influenced generations of film students, filmmakers, and film critics. Observing Film Art examines the breadth of Bordwell's work through the perspectives of those who knew him best, collaborators, former students, and critics among them. This is the first collection devoted to the work of Bordwell, and it gives equal attention to each facet of his prodigious scholarship, structured to highlight his interest in theory, history, and analysis and criticism. The cornerstones of his approach to film study, including formalism, cognitivism, and historical poetics, are all examined in detail, as are key works, including The Classical Hollywood Cinema (coauthored with Kristin Thompson and Janet Staiger) and Narration in the Fiction Film.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-12-08
Mått:156 x 235 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:268
Förlag:Rutgers University Press
Medarbetare:Kristin Thompson
ISBN:9781978841383

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Digital konst, videokonst och new media arts inom Kultur
Film inom Kultur
Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Charlie Keil is a professor in the Cinema Studies Institute and the Department of History at the University of Toronto in Canada, where he also serves as Principal of Innis College. He has published eight books, the most recent being The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema, coedited with Rob King.Murray Smith is a professor of philosophy, art, and film and Director of the Aesthetics Research Centre at the University of Kent in the UK. He has published widely on film, art, and aesthetics, including most recently Film, Art, and the Third Culture: A Naturalized Aesthetics of Film, Trainspotting, and Engaging Characters: Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema.

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresPreface by Damien ChazelleForeword by Kristin ThompsonIntroduction: David Bordwell, Champion of Film Art Charlie Keil and Murray SmithPart I: Theory1 In the TrenchesNoël Carroll2 Bordwell and FormalismMalcolm Turvey3 The Problem/Solution ModelPaisley Livingston4 Bordwell and the History of Cognitive Film TheoryCarl Plantinga5 Pattern in the Fiction FilmBrian Boyd6 Narration by MontageMaria Belodubrovskaya7 Whatever Happened to Parametric Cinema?Murray Smith8 Bordwell, Popular Cinema, and Cultural StudiesHenry JenkinsPart II: History9 The Stakes of Bordwell's Film HistoriographyCharlie Keil10 Reflections on The Classical Hollywood CinemaJanet Staiger 11 Poetics and the MachineLea Jacobs12 Hollywood: The Way Bordwell Saw ItMatthew H. Bernstein13 Bordwell, Classical Hollywood, and Post-ClassicismPeter Krämer14 Classicism and Its DescendantsRichard MaltbyPart III: Analysis and Criticism15 Make Them See: The Importance of Images in Bordwell and Thompson's Film PedagogyJeff Smith16 The Poetics of a Kiss: Bordwell's Tools for Close AnalysisScott Higgins17 Sounding Out Bordwell: Constructivism and Subjectivity in EOKatherine Spring18 Televisual Bordwell and Intertextual Cinematic AdaptationsJason Mittell19 David Bordwell: What Is an Author?James Naremore20 Bordwell in East AsiaTony Rayns21 Bordwell and the Global SouthAri Purnama22 On the Influence of David Bordwell (and Kristin Thompson) in (Western) EuropeMarc Vernet23 David Bordwell, Film CriticManohla Dargis24 David Bordwell, OnlineMatt Zoller SeitzEpilogue: The Epiphany of MeaningPaolo Cherchi UsaiAcknowledgmentsReferencesDavid Bordwell: BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex