Poetics of Cinema

by David Bordwell

Book Overview

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 Bordwell, films are made things, existing within historical contexts, and aim to create determinate effects. Beginning with this central thesis, Bordwell works out a full...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415977797
• ISBN13: 9780415977791
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.9" x 9.9"