David Bordwell (born 23 July 1947) is a prominent American film theorist and author. Film theory debates the essence of the cinema and provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to Reality, the other Arts individual He is the Jacques Ledoux Professor of Film Studies, Emeritus in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Emeritus (ɨˈmɛrɨtəs is an Adjective that is used in the title of a retired Professor, Bishop or other professional He is married to Kristin Thompson, with whom he has written two textbooks: Film Art and Film History. Kristin Thompson (born 1950 is a film theorist and author whose research interests include the close formal analysis of films the history of film styles and " Quality Film Art is the most widely used introductory film textbook in the United States. ^[1]

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Career 1.1.1 Neoformalism 2 Bibliography 3 External links 4 References

Biography

Career

Bordwell is a prolific scholar, interested in auteur studies (Ozu, Eisenstein, Dreyer), national cinemas (Hong Kong), history of film style, and narrative theory. was an influential Japanese Filmmaker. Marriage and family were among the most persistent themes in his body of work Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн January 23, 1898 &ndash February 11, 1948) was Carl Theodor Dreyer Jr ( February 3, 1889 - March 20, 1968) was a Danish Film director. The cinema of Hong Kong is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the Cinema of China Narratology is the theory and study of Narrative and Narrative structure and the ways they affect our perception Bordwell is considered the founder of cognitive film theory, an approach that relies on cognitive psychology as a basis for understanding film's effects. Cognitive psychology is a branch of Psychology that investigates internal mental processes such as problem solving memory and language It was established as an alternative to the psychoanalytic/interpretive approach that dominated film studies in the 1970s and '80s.

Neoformalism

Bordwell has also been associated with a methodological approach known as neoformalism, although this approach has been more extensively written about by Kristin Thompson. Kristin Thompson (born 1950 is a film theorist and author whose research interests include the close formal analysis of films the history of film styles and " Quality ^[2] Neoformalism is an approach to film analysis based on an observation first made by the literary theorists known as the Russian Formalists: that there is a distinction between a story and the form that conveys the story. Russian formalism was an influential school of literary criticism in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s For example, in a detective story, the murder comes at the beginning of the chain of events, but we find out the details about the murder at the end of the film, not the beginning. Much of neoformalism deals with the idea of 'defamiliarization' which is the general neoformalist term for the basic purpose of art in our lives. Defamiliarization or ostranenie (остранение is the Artistic technique of forcing the audience to see common things in an unfamiliar or strange way in order

Neoformalists reject many assumptions and methodologies made by other schools of film study, particularly hermeneutic (interpretive) approaches, among which he counts Lacanian psychoanalysis and certain variations of post-structuralism. Hermeneutics may be described as the development and study of Theories of the interpretation and understanding of texts Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan (French ʒak lakɑ̃ ( April 13, 1901 &ndash September 9, 1981) was a French Psychoanalyst The concepts of Psychoanalysis have been applied to Films in various ways Post-structuralism encompasses the intellectual developments of continental philosophers and critical theorists who wrote with tendencies of twentieth-century In Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies, Bordwell and co-editor Noël Carroll argue against these types of approaches, which they claim act as "Grand Theories" that use films to confirm pre-determined theoretical frameworks rather than attempting to do middle-level research that can actually illuminate how films work. Noël Carroll (1947-) is an American philosopher considered an authority for his aesthetic analysis of films Many film scholars have criticized neoformalism, notably Slavoj Žižek, of whom Bordwell has himself been a long-time critic. Slavoj Žižek (ˈslavoj ˈʒiʒɛk (born 21 March 1949) is a Post-Marxist Sociologist, Philosopher, and Cultural critic ^[3]

Bibliography

• Bordwell, David (2006). The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies. Berkeley: University of California Press.  
• Bordwell, David (2005). Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging. Berkeley: University of California Press.  
• Bordwell, David; Kristin Thompson (2003). Film Art: An Introduction, Seventh edition, New York: McGraw-Hill.  
• Bordwell, David (2000). Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Harvard University Press ( HUP) is a Publishing house, a division of Harvard University, that is highly respected in Academic publishing.  
• Bordwell, David (1997). On the History of Film Style. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Harvard University Press ( HUP) is a Publishing house, a division of Harvard University, that is highly respected in Academic publishing.  
• (1996) in David Bordwell and Noël Carroll: Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.  
• Bordwell, David; Kristin Thompson (1994 (2002)). Film History: An Introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill.  
• Bordwell, David (1993). The Cinema of Eisenstein. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Harvard University Press ( HUP) is a Publishing house, a division of Harvard University, that is highly respected in Academic publishing.  
• Bordwell, David (1989). Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Harvard University Press ( HUP) is a Publishing house, a division of Harvard University, that is highly respected in Academic publishing.  
• Bordwell, David (1988). Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema. Princeton: Princeton University Press.  
• Bordwell, David (1985). Narration in the Fiction Film. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.  
• Bordwell, David; Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson (1985). The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960. New York: Columbia University Press.  
• Bordwell, David (1981). The Films of Carl-Theodor Dreyer. Berkeley: University of California Press.  
• Bordwell, David (1974). French Impressionist Cinema: Film Culture, Film Theory, and Film Style, Reprint 2002, North Stratford, NH 03590: Ayers Company Publishers, Inc.  

External links

• David Bordwell. David Bordwell's Website on Cinema. Retrieved on March 28, 2006. Events 37 - Roman Emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
• David Bordwell. David Bordwell's CV. Retrieved on December 14, 2006. Events 1287 - St Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses killing over 50000 people Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
• Chuck Stephens. School’s Out? Never!: David Bordwell Keeps Working the Room (interview). Cinema Scope. Retrieved on March 28, 2006. Events 37 - Roman Emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

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