Loose Leaf for Film Art: An Introduction

by David Bordwell, Jeff Smith, Kristin Thompson

Overview

Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, Film Art has been the best-selling and most widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. Taking a skills-centered approach supported by examples from many periods and countries, the authors help students develop a core set of analytical skills that will enrich their understanding of any film, in any genre. In-depth examples deepen students' appreciation for how creative choices by filmmakers affect what viewers experience and how they respond. Film Art is generously illustrated with more than 1,000 frame enlargements taken directly from completed films, providing concrete illustrations of key concepts. Its Connect program includes invaluable tutorials featuring canonic film clips from the Criterion Collection. The thirteenth edition of Film Art includes extensively updated examples, and expanded coverage of digital filmmaking and the artistic and commercial implications of streaming.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781264964819
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	09/06/2023
Edition description:	13th ed.
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	8.43(w) x 10.79(h) x 0.71(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

David Bordwell is Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He also holds a Hilldale Professorship in the Humanities and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Copenhagen. He has also held the Kluge Chair in Modern Culture at the Library of Congress. His books include Narration in the Fiction Film (University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), On the History of Film Style (Harvard University Press, 1997), Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment (Harvard University Press, 2000; 2nd ed., Irvington Way Institute Press, 2011), Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging
(University of California Press, 2005), The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies (University of California Press, 2006), The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2016), and Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling (University of Chicago Press, 2017). He has also written books on Carl Theodor Dreyer, Yasujiro Ozu, Sergei Eisenstein, digital cinema, and Hong Kong film.


Jeff Smith is a Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, where he earned his Ph.D. He is the author of two books: The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film
Music (1998) and Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist: Reading the Hollywood Reds (2014). He has also published several articles and book chapters on the role of sound and music in American cinema. He is currently at work on a book that traces development of the classical Hollywood film score during the 1930s that examines how studios allocated musical resources to films based on their position within the hierarchy of prestige pictures, programmers, and “B” films.


Kristin Thompson is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, where she earned her Ph.D. Her books include Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible (1981), Exporting Entertainment: America’s Place in World Film Markets 1901–1934 (1985), Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis (1988), Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique (1999), Herr Lubitsch Goes to Hollywood: German and American Film after World War I (2005), and The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood (2007).

Table of Contents

About The Authors
Preface


PART ONE • Film Art and Filmmaking
CHAPTER 1 Film as Art: Creativity, Technology, and Business


PART TWO • Film Form
CHAPTER 2 The Significance of Film Form
CHAPTER 3 Narrative Form

PART THREE • Film Style
CHAPTER 4 The Shot: Mise-en-Scene
CHAPTER 5 The Shot: Cinematography
CHAPTER 6 The Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing
CHAPTER 7 Sound in the Cinema
CHAPTER 8 Summary: Style and Film Form


PART FOUR • Types of Films
CHAPTER 9 Film Genres
CHAPTER 10 Documentary, Experimental, and Animated Films
PART FIVE • Critical Analysis of Films
CHAPTER 11 Film Criticism: Sample Analyses
PART SIX • Film Art and Film History
CHAPTER 12 Historical Changes in Film Art: Conventions and Choices, Tradition and Trends


Glossary
Index
Optional Chapters (available through Create and Connect’s ebook)
Film Adaptations (supported by SmartBook)
Writing a Critical Analysis of a Film
Additional Resources for “Film As Art: Creativity, Technology, and Business”