Person

David Bordwell

Acting · Penn Yan, New York, USA

David Bordwell was an American film theorist and film historian. After receiving his PhD from the University of Iowa in 1973, he wrote more than fifteen volumes on the subject of cinema including Narration in the Fiction Film (1985), Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema (1988), Making Meaning (1989), and On the History of Film Style (1997). With his wife Kristin Thompson, Bordwell wrote the textbooks Film Art (1979) and Film History (1994). Film Art, in its 12th edition as of 2019, is still used as a text in introductory film courses. His largest work was The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960 (1985), written in collaboration with Thompson and Janet Staiger.

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  Cinema Futures

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  Functions of Film Sound

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  Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson

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  Ozuland: David Bordwell on Good Morning

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  Powerful Patterns: David Bordwell on Notorious

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  The Gift to Be Simple: Satire and Sympathy in 'The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice'

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• 2019The Gift to Be Simple: Satire and Sympathy in 'The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice'Self
• 2019Powerful Patterns: David Bordwell on NotoriousSelf
• 2017Ozuland: David Bordwell on Good MorningSelf
• 2017Lighting Up with Hildy JohnsonSelf
• 2016Cinema FuturesSelf
• 2013Functions of Film SoundWriter