Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema

by David Bordwell

Book Overview

David Bordwell's new book is at once a history of film criticism, an analysis of how critics interpret film, and a proposal for an alternative program for film studies. It is an anatomy of film criticism meant to reset the agenda for film scholarship. As such Making Meaning should be a landmark book, a focus for debate from which future film study will evolve.

Bordwell systematically maps different strategies for interpreting films...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067454336X
• ISBN13: 9780674543362
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"