Film Art: Form and Style: 5th Edition

Author: [USA] David Bordwell
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Film Art: Form and Style is a highly popular film textbook in Western countries and is used as a teaching material in many communication departments at universities in the United States. For example, New York University (NYU), one of the most renowned film education institutions in the U.S., has long used this book as a required textbook for its core courses, helping to unify the understanding of film among students from diverse backgrounds around the world. The book primarily examines the artistic experience that the film medium creates for the audience: how a film is produced, how the entire film operates, how to conduct film criticism, and how the art of film has evolved over history. The book is accompanied by numerous illustrations, rarely using stills from films, as most of the photographs are enlargements from 35mm film negatives, avoiding the issue of discrepancies between stills and the final film images. The authors of this book are Dr. David Bordwell, a professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin, and Dr. Kristin Thompson. Professor Bordwell has published many film studies books and written numerous related articles, including studies on Chinese cinema.