The Way Hollywood Tells It by David Bordwell
Hollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios? This book argues that the principles of visual storytelling created in the studio era are alive and well.
"David Bordwell is our best writer on the cinemaHe is deeply informed about films, he loves them, and he writes about them with a clarity and perception that makes the prose itself a joy to read. Because he sees movies so freshly and deeply he isn't deceived by the usual categories and finds excellence and experiment in unexpected places." - Roger Ebert "There is no shortage of scholarly literature on contemporary Hollywood, but none of it lives up to the standards set by Bordwell here. No one else has this range, depth, sophistication or authority. More remarkable still, Bordwell pulls this off with remarkable lightness of touch." - Murray Smith, University of Kent"
David Bordwell is Jacques Ledoux Professor of Film Studies and Hilldale Professor of Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Among his books are Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging, Film History: An Introduction (with Kristin Thompson, 2002), Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment, and On the History of Film Style.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520246225 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520246225 |
| Title | The Way Hollywood Tells It |
| Author | David Bordwell |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2006-04-10 |
| Number of pages | 309 |
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