Tutorial CD-ROM to accompany Film Art

Bordwell, David; Thompson, Kristin

ISBN 10: 0077329937 ISBN 13: 9780077329938

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2009

Synopsis

This text-specific tutorial CD-ROM helps to clarify and reinforce specific concepts addressed in the text through 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. The CD-ROM is available for separate purchase (ISBN 0-07-732993-7) or packaged with a new text at no additional cost. (To order the package of the text and CD-ROM, use ISBN 0-07-739643-X.)

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0077329937
• ISBN 13: 9780077329938
• Binding: CD-ROM