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Author:   David Bordwell
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
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9781138140578

ISBN 10:   1138140570
Pages:   342
Publication Date:   14 April 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface 2005 -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. A Life in Cinema -- From Theatre to Cinema -- The Silent Films -- Europe, Hollywood, and Mexico -- Projects and Problems -- Triumph and Decline -- The Particularities of Method -- 2. Monumental Heroics: The Silent Films -- Toward Plotless Cinema -- Strike -- Potemkin -- October -- Old and New -- A Note on Versions of Eisensteins Silent Films -- 3. Seizing the Spectator: Film Theory in the Silent Era -- Between Theory and Practice -- Agitation as Excitation -- Montage in Theatre and Film -- Film Language and Intellectual Cinema -- Film Formas Dialectics The Eclectic Modernist -- 4. Practical Aesthetics: Pedagogy -- Structure and Style: The Episode -- Structure and Style: From Episode to Work -- Assaulting the Eye -- 5. Cinema as Synthesis: Film Theory,-1948 -- From Agitprop Formalism to Socialist Realism -- Conceptions of Psychological Activity -- Film Form: Organic Unity -- Montage: The Musical Analogy Revisited -- PathosandEcstasy -- A Mature Poetics -- 6. History and Tragedy: The Late Films -- Alexander Nevsky -- Ivan the Terrible -- 7. The Making and Remaking of Segei Eisenstein -- Legend in Life -- The Assimilation into Orthodoxy -- The Exemplary Modernist -- Eisenstein Our Contemporary -- Chronology -- Filmography -- Further Reading -- Bibliography -- PhotoCredits -- Index.

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David Bordwell is Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies in the Department of Communication at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has written several books on film theory, history, and criticism, including On the History of Film Style (Harvard, 1997) and TheClassical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode ofProduction to 1960 (with Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson, Routledge/Columbia, 1985).

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