Film art : an introduction

Edition

Twelfth edition

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-260-05608-2

Collation

xvii, 624 halaman: ilustrasi; 25 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

791.43 Bor f

On The History of Film Style

The study of cinematic style has profoundly shaped our attitude toward movies. Style assigns films to a tradition, distinguishes a classic, and signals the arrival of a pathbreaking innovation. David Bordwell now shows how film scholars have attempted to explain stylistic continuity and change across the history of cinema.

Post-Theory Reconstructing Film Studies

With Post-Theory, David Bordwell and Noël Carroll challenge the prevailing practices of film scholarship. Since the 1970s, film scholars have been searching for a unified theory that will explain all sorts of films, their production, and their reception; the field has been dominated by structuralist Marxism, varieties of cultural theory, and the psychoanalytic ideas of Freud and Lacan. Bordwel…