Kristin Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3876135 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristin Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristin |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9547-0598 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tell el-Amarna, Autumn 2024 to Spring 2025
Fieldwork at Amarna from autumn 2024 to spring 2025 involved excavation and survey in Amarna’s housing areas, including the house of the vizier Nakht, and the continuation of several post-excavation projects. The post-excavation work reported on here is the study of human skeletal materials, pottery, and matting from the non-elite cemeteries; relief fragments from the Maru-Aten; zooarchaeological samples from the house of Panehesy; and lithics an…
Cultural Differences and Interdependencies in Climate Change Mitigation Efforts and Their Psychological Antecedents Across 63 Countries
Climate change research, like much of social science, is biased toward WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) populations, limiting its global relevance. Even cross‐national studies often suffer from methodological inconsistencies due to cultural and geographic interdependencies. This study examines how such differences shape psychological drivers and national climate mitigation outcomes. Using preregistered analyses on large…
Breaking the Glass Armor
Life and Action
A limestone ear from an unexcavated area at Amarna
Publication of a surface find from Amarna, an over life-size limestone ear which was possibly a sculptor's practice piece. This may point to the existence of an unexcavated sculptor's workshop, as well as providing further evidence for colossal statuary at Amarna
Major technological changes of the 1920s
Initial standardization of the basic technology
A detailed analysis of how an urban trail system affects cyclists’ travel
A Shattered Granodiorite Dyad of Akhenaten and Nefertiti from Tell El-Amarna
In 1992 188 pieces of a shattered granodiorite dyad depicting Akhenaten and Nefertiti seated beside each other were found in an excavation dump at Tell el-Amarna. Considerable evidence shows that the pieces had originally been discovered in 1912 by Ludwig Borchardt's expedition in the complex of the sculptor Thutmose, along with a matching granodiorite head that was taken to Germany (Berlin 21358). From 2001 to 2003, reconstruction was carried ou…
The Classical Hollywood Cinema
Storytelling in the New Hollywood
Drawing on a wide range of films from the 1920s to the 1990s—from Keaton’s Our Hospitality to Casablanca to Terminator 2 , Kristin Thompson offers the first in-depth analysis of Hollywood’s storytelling techniques and how they are used to make complex, easily comprehensible, entertaining films.
"Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Society for Cinema Studies, "Fair Usage Publication of Film Stills
Since the mid-1960s, the serious study of the cinema has expanded enormously. Many universities, colleges, and high schools now offer courses in the area. Moreover, scholarly publishing on cinema has burgeoned and gained respectability. Several scholarly presses now regularly bring out books on the subject, and there are refereed film journals. One important facet of the rise of cinema as an academic discipline has been a new concern to illustrat…
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
"Eisenstein's "Ivan the Terrible
Eisenstein's 'Ivan the Terrible
The Description for this book, Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible A Neoformalist Analysis, will be forthcoming
Early Sound Counterpoint
"Ivan the Terrible" and Stalinist Russia
When Part II of Ivan the Terrible was released in the West, Dwight Macdonald wrote a review which attempted to interpret the film in terms of the circumstances in which it was made. He assumed that, Taken on the surface, Ivan II is a parable, justifying Stalin's policies.1 He equated the Oprichniki2 with the GPU, the boyars with the kulaks, and Ivan's treacherous relatives with the Old Bolsheviks. But, Macdonald adds, this surface reading is-supe…
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 Art of the Moving Picture
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
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
"Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Society for Cinema Studies, "Fair Usage Publication of Film Stills
Since the mid-1960s, the serious study of the cinema has expanded enormously. Many universities, colleges, and high schools now offer courses in the area. Moreover, scholarly publishing on cinema has burgeoned and gained respectability. Several scholarly presses now regularly bring out books on the subject, and there are refereed film journals. One important facet of the rise of cinema as an academic discipline has been a new concern to illustrat…
Early Sound Counterpoint
"Ivan the Terrible" and Stalinist Russia
When Part II of Ivan the Terrible was released in the West, Dwight Macdonald wrote a review which attempted to interpret the film in terms of the circumstances in which it was made. He assumed that, Taken on the surface, Ivan II is a parable, justifying Stalin's policies.1 He equated the Oprichniki2 with the GPU, the boyars with the kulaks, and Ivan's treacherous relatives with the Old Bolsheviks. But, Macdonald adds, this surface reading is-supe…
The Art of the Moving Picture
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
"Ivan the Terrible" and Stalinist Russia
When Part II of Ivan the Terrible was released in the West, Dwight Macdonald wrote a review which attempted to interpret the film in terms of the circumstances in which it was made. He assumed that, Taken on the surface, Ivan II is a parable, justifying Stalin's policies.1 He equated the Oprichniki2 with the GPU, the boyars with the kulaks, and Ivan's treacherous relatives with the Old Bolsheviks. But, Macdonald adds, this surface reading is-supe…
Early Sound Counterpoint
Eisenstein's 'Ivan the Terrible
The Description for this book, Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible A Neoformalist Analysis, will be forthcoming
Toward a scientific film history
Barry Salt. Film Style and Technology: History and Analysis. London: Starword, 1983. 408 pp
"Eisenstein's "Ivan the Terrible
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
"Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Society for Cinema Studies, "Fair Usage Publication of Film Stills
Since the mid-1960s, the serious study of the cinema has expanded enormously. Many universities, colleges, and high schools now offer courses in the area. Moreover, scholarly publishing on cinema has burgeoned and gained respectability. Several scholarly presses now regularly bring out books on the subject, and there are refereed film journals. One important facet of the rise of cinema as an academic discipline has been a new concern to illustrat…
Storytelling in the New Hollywood
Drawing on a wide range of films from the 1920s to the 1990s—from Keaton’s Our Hospitality to Casablanca to Terminator 2 , Kristin Thompson offers the first in-depth analysis of Hollywood’s storytelling techniques and how they are used to make complex, easily comprehensible, entertaining films.
The Classical Hollywood Cinema
A Shattered Granodiorite Dyad of Akhenaten and Nefertiti from Tell El-Amarna
In 1992 188 pieces of a shattered granodiorite dyad depicting Akhenaten and Nefertiti seated beside each other were found in an excavation dump at Tell el-Amarna. Considerable evidence shows that the pieces had originally been discovered in 1912 by Ludwig Borchardt's expedition in the complex of the sculptor Thutmose, along with a matching granodiorite head that was taken to Germany (Berlin 21358). From 2001 to 2003, reconstruction was carried ou…
A detailed analysis of how an urban trail system affects cyclists’ travel
Major technological changes of the 1920s
Initial standardization of the basic technology
A limestone ear from an unexcavated area at Amarna
Publication of a surface find from Amarna, an over life-size limestone ear which was possibly a sculptor's practice piece. This may point to the existence of an unexcavated sculptor's workshop, as well as providing further evidence for colossal statuary at Amarna
Life and Action
Breaking the Glass Armor
Tell el-Amarna, Autumn 2024 to Spring 2025
Fieldwork at Amarna from autumn 2024 to spring 2025 involved excavation and survey in Amarna’s housing areas, including the house of the vizier Nakht, and the continuation of several post-excavation projects. The post-excavation work reported on here is the study of human skeletal materials, pottery, and matting from the non-elite cemeteries; relief fragments from the Maru-Aten; zooarchaeological samples from the house of Panehesy; and lithics an…
Cultural Differences and Interdependencies in Climate Change Mitigation Efforts and Their Psychological Antecedents Across 63 Countries
Climate change research, like much of social science, is biased toward WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) populations, limiting its global relevance. Even cross‐national studies often suffer from methodological inconsistencies due to cultural and geographic interdependencies. This study examines how such differences shape psychological drivers and national climate mitigation outcomes. Using preregistered analyses on large…
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