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Title: Film Art: An Introduction by David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson ISBN: 0-07-006634-5 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Pub. Date: 05 August, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $46.25 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Comprehensive Introduction to Film Theory and Criticism
Comment: This is a terrific intro to film theory and criticism. I first read it as a freshman at NYU Film School and it was by far the best text I read in my 4 years there. Recently I re-read the book after completing my first feature film as a writer/director and I realized how truly great the book is. I now consider it my filmmaking bible.
Great section of note - the section on expiremental filmmaking techniques and the discussions of a handful of feature films from "Tokyo Story" to "Do the Right Thing."
A MUST HAVE for filmmakers and a great read for anyone else.
Rating: 2
Summary: There are other choices!!
Comment: This book serves as only a general intro. to film, but even at the level of general intro., Bruce Kawin's How Movies Work or Louis Giannetti's Understanding Movies is better than this one in many respects, particularly Kawin's.
Bordwell is often hailed as the giant of cinema studies. Yes, the guy has watched literally a lot of movies, but apart from his Narration in Fiction Film, which is a respectable work in its deployment of Russian Formalism, his other stuff is just commonsensical view. I personally don't find his books argumentative enough. Planet Hong Kong, for instance, although well-researched, is an extremely limited view of Hong Kong cinema and pays no attention to understand the philosophical complexities of Wong Kar-wai's movies, not to mention his ignorance of some truly innovative directors such as Fruit Chan, whose postcolonial sensibility has yet to be acknowledged.
His recent book Post-theory is anti-psychoanalytic, a move that is a disgrace to students/lovers of film theory. I am not saying that only psychoanalysis (if you read Joan Copjec's essay Orthopsychic Subject in Read My Desire, you will know that a lot of people thinking they use psychoanalysis properly to "do" film studies are wrong) and other structural / poststructural discourses are the only ways to understand films, but they are more academic and serious ways to make an argument that would expand our horizons. The film world is now more interested in Deleuze and perhaps other Lacanian concepts such as the real, Bordwell's work is really dated and anti-intellectual.
Rating: 5
Summary: A better book than this on the art of film?? Naaa!!!!!
Comment: This book is useful as a university textbook, but is also excellent for filmgoers who would like to understand a bit more than the average audience.
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Title: A Short Guide to Writing about Film (4th Edition) by Timothy Corrigan ISBN: 0321081145 Publisher: Longman Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $33.20 |
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Title: How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, and Multimedia : Language, History, Theory by James Monaco ISBN: 019503869X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Understanding Movies (9th Edition) by Louis Giannetti ISBN: 0130408131 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 21 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $64.00 |
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Title: Film Art: An Introduction and Film Viewers Guide by David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson ISBN: 0072878800 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua Pub. Date: 18 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $68.90 |
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Title: The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography by Frank Capra ISBN: 0306807718 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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