Poetics of cinema
"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 Bordw...
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New York :
Routledge,
[2008]
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Table of Contents:
- Poetics of cinema
- Convention, construction, and cinematic vision
- 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
- 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 : decorative style in 1920s and 1930s Japanese film
- Aesthetics in action : kung-fu, gunplay, and cinematic expression
- Richness through imperfection : King Hu and the glimpse.