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Derided as simple, dismissed as inferior to film, famously characterized as a vast wasteland, television nonetheless exerts an undeniable, apparently ...
An Introduction
Written by two of the leading scholars in film studies, Film History: An Introduction is a comprehensive, global survey of the medium that covers the ...
Observations on the Art, Craft, and Business of Filmmaking
David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson are two of Americaโs preeminent film scholars. You would be hard pressed to find a serious student of the cinema...
Its Creation and Contents
Over more than a century and a quarter of excavations the royal and administrative buildings in the city of Amarna have yielded the remains of many hu...
"Studying the arts isn't only about learning facts and concepts either, although both are important. In addition, studying the arts broadens our taste...
Film is an art form with a language and an aesthethic all its own. This edition has been re-designed in colour greatly enhancing the text's visual app...
"Classical works have for us become covered with the glassy armor of familiarity," wrote Victor Shklovsky in 1914. Here Kristin Thompson "defamiliariz...
An Introduction with Tutorial Cd
Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's Film Art has been the best-selling...
The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood
In this study of Peter Jacksons film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkiens "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, Kristin Thompson demonstrates the impact the trilo...
Understanding Classical Narrative Technique
Drawing on a wide range of films from the 1920s to the 1990sโfrom Keatonโs Our Hospitality to Casablanca to Terminator 2, Kristin Thompson offers ...
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This new edition of Film History has been revised to include recent films, new examples, and updated comprehensive overviews of the rise of streaming ...
Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960
'A dense, challenging and important book.' Philip French Observer 'At the very least, this blockbuster is probably the best single volume history of H...
German and American Film After World War I
The first study by an acclaimed American scholar of the artistic interdependencies between the German and the Hollywood cinema in the 1920s....
Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson and now, Co-Author, Jeff Smith's Film A...
Film Style & Mode of Production to 1960
How films are conceived, planned, and produced leaves a mark upon the films, directly and structurally. The relations between film style and mode of p...
Bordwell provides his guide on how to watch, and what to watch for, during a cinematic experience. Included are advice on how to write analytical essa...
Or, Le Mot Juste
An Introduction : 2025 Release
"A major purpose of Film History: An Introduction is to survey the uses of the medium in different times and places. Sometimes we dwell on the creatio...
In-depth analysis of the first two Hobbit movies and a look back at the Lord of the Rings movies. Includes interviews with various cast and crew....