David Bordwell

David Bordwell ( born July 23, 1947) is an American film historian. He was Professor of Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin and is an annual guest lecturer at the international film school cologne. His collaboration with his wife, the film scholar Kristin Thompson authored book Film Art: An Introduction is one of the standard works of film studies. Bordwell lives with his wife in Madison.

Bordwell studied film at the University of Iowa, where he also received his doctorate. In his first time in 1979, published jointly with Kristin Thompson Film Art work he postulated the teaching approach of Neoformalismus, which is based on the Russian formalism of the early 20th century. In rejecting a psychoanalytic film theory which reduces film on its unconscious effect on the viewer gets in Neoformalismus a viewing of the film in the foreground, in which the stylistic norms and conventions of the film in its aesthetic expression and effect with respect to the expectations of the audience and the possibility, they are examined consciously understand. Bordwell represents thereby a cognitivist approach, wishing to make connections between film structure and audience reception recognizable and schematize.

Bordwell conducted research in the areas of the auteur theory, where he has published over Ozu Yasujirō, Carl Theodor Dreyer and Sergei Eisenstein. His further attention was paid to the Hong Kong cinema, the history of cinematic style development and cinematic narrative theory.

Works

  • David Bordwell: The Films of Carl- Theodor Dreyer. University of California Press 1981.
  • David Bordwell: Narration in the Fiction film. University of Wisconsin Press 1985.
  • David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, and Janet Staiger: The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960, Columbia University Press, 1985. .
  • David Bordwell: Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema. Princeton University Press 1988.
  • David Bordwell: Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema. Harvard University Press 1989.
  • David Bordwell: The Cinema of Eisenstein. Harvard University Press 1993
  • David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson: Film History: An Introduction. McGraw- Hill, New York 1994.
  • David Bordwell: On the History of Film Style. Harvard University Press 1997
  • David Bordwell: Visual Style in Cinema: Four chapters film history. Publisher of the authors in 2001.
  • David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson: Film Art: An Introduction. McGraw- Hill, New York 2003. (7th Edition)
  • David Bordwell: Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging. University of California Press 2005
  • David Bordwell: The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies. University of California Press. , 2006.
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