David Bordwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1002748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Bordwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Bordwell |
| SIGNATURE | BORDWELL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Perplexing Plots
David Bordwell reveals how crime fiction, plays, and films made unconventional narrative mainstream. A sweeping, kaleidoscopic account written in a lively, conversational style, Perplexing Plots offers an ambitious new understanding of how popular culture has evolved over the past century.
Saving New Sounds
Is this thing on?Part microphone check, part technical support query; the question seems a fitting way to start this collection, which is not just the book you hold in your hands (or the PDF you see on your screen) but also a vibrant, growing, and slightly temperamental database that indexes millions of podcasts
Picture Planes
David Bordwell argues that Annette Michelson's impact on film criticism was comparable to Andrew Sarris's. In unearthing the strategies or "schema" regularly used by critics to interpret avant-garde films, he shows that Michelson pioneered an innovative understanding of modernist art as being about human perception and cognition. This new interpretive paradigm proved hugely influential, in part due to Michelson's institutional roles as teacher, t…
Narration in the Fiction Film
Making Meaning
Poetics Of Cinema
The Way Hollywood Tells It
Hollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios? David Bordwell argues that the principles of visual storytelling created in the studio era are alive and well, even in today’s bloated blockbusters. American filmmakers have created a durable tradition—one that we should not be ashamed to call artistic, and one that survives in both mainstream entertainment and nich…
La labor inferencial del espectador en La ventana indiscreta
La labor inferencial del espectador en La ventana indiscreta
The Classical Hollywood Cinema
The Classical Hollywood Cinema
The formulation of the classical narrative
Film Futures
In the story by Jorge Luis Borges, "The Garden of Forking Paths," a character discovers that the sage Ts'ui Pen has devised a labyrinthine novel
The Cinema of Hong Kong
The Cinema of Hong Kong examines one of the most popular, dynamic, and important cinema traditions in the history of film. Providing an overview of major directors, genres, and stars, from its origins to the present, this volume examines Hong Kong cinema in historical, transnational, cultural and political contexts. Individual chapters focus on Hong Kong cinema before and during World War II, the cinema of the turbulent 1960s, its rise to world p…
Preaching Pluralism
The Cinema of Eisenstein
Making Meaning
Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema
Over the last two decades, Yasujiro Ozu has won international recognition as a major filmmaker. Combining biographical information with discussions of the films' aesthetic strategies and cultural significance, David Bordwell questions the popular image of Ozu as the traditional Japanese artisan and examines the aesthetic nature and functions of his cinema
Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema
Adventures in the Highlands of Theory
Journal Article Adventures in the Highlands of Theory Get access David Bordwell David Bordwell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 29, Issue 1, Winter 1988, Pages 72–97, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/29.1.72 Published: 01 January 1988
ApProppriations and ImPropprieties
When Vladimir Propp died in 1970, his name had become a reference point in the theory of narrative. The Morphology of the Folktale, published in Russian in 1928, appeared in English thirty years later and was soon brought out in other languages. Anthropologists and folklorists were quick to praise, criticize, test, and revise his claims.' A. J. Greimas, Tzvetan Todorov, Claude Bremond, and Roland Barthes made the Morphology one point of departure…
The Classical Hollywood Cinema
Shows that Hollywood films operate within a set of assumptions, shared by different genres, directors and studios, about how a film should look and sound. Details how these conventions came to standardize the whole filmmaking process itself
Toward a scientific film history
Barry Salt. Film Style and Technology: History and Analysis. London: Starword, 1983. 408 pp
The Films of Carl-Theodor Dreyer
The Formalist's Dreyer
The Films of Carl-Theodore Dreyer
Film Futures
In the story by Jorge Luis Borges, "The Garden of Forking Paths," a character discovers that the sage Ts'ui Pen has devised a labyrinthine novel
The Classical Hollywood Cinema
Shows that Hollywood films operate within a set of assumptions, shared by different genres, directors and studios, about how a film should look and sound. Details how these conventions came to standardize the whole filmmaking process itself
The Films of Carl-Theodor Dreyer
Space and Narrative in the Films of Ozu
Journal Article Space and Narrative in the Films of Ozu Get access Kristin Thompson, Kristin Thompson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Bordwell David Bordwell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 17, Issue 2, Summer 1976, Pages 41–73, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/17.2.41 Published: 01 July 1976
The Idea of Montage in Soviet Art and Film
Some questions in film history can be answered in terms of cinema alone. Other questions demand that the historian place film-making in a larger .context. For example, the historically significant European film-maker often has artistic alliances outside film, in stage directing (e.g., Sjostrom, Visconti, and Bergman), painting (e.g., Antonioni, Bresson), or even poetry (e.g., the Pr6verts). For this reason, many problems in European film history …
Saving New Sounds
Is this thing on?Part microphone check, part technical support query; the question seems a fitting way to start this collection, which is not just the book you hold in your hands (or the PDF you see on your screen) but also a vibrant, growing, and slightly temperamental database that indexes millions of podcasts
ApProppriations and ImPropprieties
When Vladimir Propp died in 1970, his name had become a reference point in the theory of narrative. The Morphology of the Folktale, published in Russian in 1928, appeared in English thirty years later and was soon brought out in other languages. Anthropologists and folklorists were quick to praise, criticize, test, and revise his claims.' A. J. Greimas, Tzvetan Todorov, Claude Bremond, and Roland Barthes made the Morphology one point of departure…
The Films of Carl-Theodore Dreyer
The Musical Analogy
Eisenstein's Epistemological shife
Journal Article Eisenstein's Epistemological shife Get access David Bordwell David Bordwell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 15, Issue 4, Winter 1974, Pages 29–46, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/15.4.29 Published: 01 December 1974
The Idea of Montage in Soviet Art and Film
Some questions in film history can be answered in terms of cinema alone. Other questions demand that the historian place film-making in a larger .context. For example, the historically significant European film-maker often has artistic alliances outside film, in stage directing (e.g., Sjostrom, Visconti, and Bergman), painting (e.g., Antonioni, Bresson), or even poetry (e.g., the Pr6verts). For this reason, many problems in European film history …
Eisenstein's Epistemological shife
Journal Article Eisenstein's Epistemological shife Get access David Bordwell David Bordwell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 15, Issue 4, Winter 1974, Pages 29–46, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/15.4.29 Published: 01 December 1974
Eisenstein's Epistemology
Eisenstein's Epistemology: A Response Get access David Bordwell David Bordwell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 16, Issue 1, Spring 1975, Pages 142–143, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/16.1.142 Published: 01 March 1975
Space and Narrative in the Films of Ozu
Journal Article Space and Narrative in the Films of Ozu Get access Kristin Thompson, Kristin Thompson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Bordwell David Bordwell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 17, Issue 2, Summer 1976, Pages 41–73, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/17.2.41 Published: 01 July 1976
The Musical Analogy
The Films of Carl-Theodor Dreyer
The Formalist's Dreyer
The Films of Carl-Theodore Dreyer
Toward a scientific film history
Barry Salt. Film Style and Technology: History and Analysis. London: Starword, 1983. 408 pp
The Classical Hollywood Cinema
Shows that Hollywood films operate within a set of assumptions, shared by different genres, directors and studios, about how a film should look and sound. Details how these conventions came to standardize the whole filmmaking process itself
Adventures in the Highlands of Theory
Journal Article Adventures in the Highlands of Theory Get access David Bordwell David Bordwell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 29, Issue 1, Winter 1988, Pages 72–97, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/29.1.72 Published: 01 January 1988
ApProppriations and ImPropprieties
When Vladimir Propp died in 1970, his name had become a reference point in the theory of narrative. The Morphology of the Folktale, published in Russian in 1928, appeared in English thirty years later and was soon brought out in other languages. Anthropologists and folklorists were quick to praise, criticize, test, and revise his claims.' A. J. Greimas, Tzvetan Todorov, Claude Bremond, and Roland Barthes made the Morphology one point of departure…
Making Meaning
Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema
Over the last two decades, Yasujiro Ozu has won international recognition as a major filmmaker. Combining biographical information with discussions of the films' aesthetic strategies and cultural significance, David Bordwell questions the popular image of Ozu as the traditional Japanese artisan and examines the aesthetic nature and functions of his cinema
Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema
The Cinema of Eisenstein
Preaching Pluralism
The Cinema of Hong Kong
The Cinema of Hong Kong examines one of the most popular, dynamic, and important cinema traditions in the history of film. Providing an overview of major directors, genres, and stars, from its origins to the present, this volume examines Hong Kong cinema in historical, transnational, cultural and political contexts. Individual chapters focus on Hong Kong cinema before and during World War II, the cinema of the turbulent 1960s, its rise to world p…
Film Futures
In the story by Jorge Luis Borges, "The Garden of Forking Paths," a character discovers that the sage Ts'ui Pen has devised a labyrinthine novel
The Classical Hollywood Cinema
The Classical Hollywood Cinema
The formulation of the classical narrative
La labor inferencial del espectador en La ventana indiscreta
La labor inferencial del espectador en La ventana indiscreta
The Way Hollywood Tells It
Hollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios? David Bordwell argues that the principles of visual storytelling created in the studio era are alive and well, even in today’s bloated blockbusters. American filmmakers have created a durable tradition—one that we should not be ashamed to call artistic, and one that survives in both mainstream entertainment and nich…
Poetics Of Cinema
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