Poetics Of Cinema

by Bordwell; David

• ISBN13: 9780415977791
• ISBN10: 0415977797
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-10-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Bringing together twenty-five years of work on what he has called the "historical poetics of cinema," David Bordwell presents an extended analysis of a key question for film studies: how are films made, in particular historical contexts, in order to achieve certain effects? For Bordwell, films are madethings, existing within historical contexts, and aim to create determinate effects. Beginning with this central thesis, Bordwell works out a full understanding of how films channel and recast cultural influences for their cinematic purposes. With more than five hundred film stills, Poetics of Cinemais a must-have for any student of cinema.

Table of Contents

Introduction Questions of Theory

Poetics of Cinema

Convention, Construction, and Cinematic Vision Studies in Narrative

Three Dimensions of Film Narrative

Cognition and Comprehension: Viewing and Forgetting in Mildred Pierce

The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice

Film Futures

Mutual Friends and Chronologies of Chance Studies in Style

Cinecerity

Taking Things to Extremes: Hallucinations Courtesy of Robert Reinert

CinemaScope, The Modern Miracle You See Without Glasses

Who Blinked First?

Visual Style in Japanese Cinema, 1925-1945

A Cinema of Flourishes

Aesthetics in Action: Kung Fu, Gunplay, and Cinematic Expression

Richness through Imperfection: King Hu and the Glimpse

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