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Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, David Bordwell's and Kristin Thompson's Film Art has been the best-selling and widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. While it continues to provide the best introduction to the fundamentals of serious film study, the eighth edition has been revised be more classroom friendly by introducing film techniques earlier in the text, followed by the chapters on Film Genres. Supported by a text-specific Tutorial CD-ROM with video clips, Film Art is automatically packaged with this outstanding student learning tool.
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Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. since 1979, david bordwell's and kristin thompson's film art has been the best-selling and widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. while it continues to provide the best introduction to the fundamentals of serious film study, the eighth edition has been revised be more classroom friendly by introducing film techniques earlier in the text, followed by the chapters on film genres. supported by a text-specific tutorial cd-rom with video clips, film art is automatically packaged with this outstanding student learning tool. brief toc preface part one: film art and filmmaking chapter 1. putting films on screen part two: film form chapter 2. the significance of film form chapter 3. narrative as a formal system 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. style as a formal system part four: types of films chapter 9. film genres chapter 10. documentary, experimental, and animated films part five: critical analysis of films introduction: writing a critical analysis of a film chapter 11. sample analyses part six: film art and film history chapter 12. film art and film history kristin thompson is an honorary fellow at the university of wisconsin-madison. she holds a master's degree in film from the university of iowa and a doctorate in film from the university of wisconsin-madison. she has published eisenstein's ivan the terrible (princeton university press, 1981), exporting entertainment: america's place in world film markets, 1907-1934 (british film institute, 1985), breaking the glass armor: neoformalist film analysis (princeton university press, 1988), and wooster proposes, jeeves disposes, or le mot juste (james h. heinman, 1992). in her spare time she studies egyptology. the authors have collaborated on film history (mcgraw-hill, 1994) with ja*n*e*t* staiger, on the classical hollywood cinema (columbia university press, 1985) and storytelling in the new hollywood (harvard university press, 1999) (CD-ROM) 