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    David Jay Bordwell (/ˈbɔːrdwəl/; July 23, 1947 – February 29, 2024) was an American film theorist and film historian. After receiving his PhD from the...
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    the problems are cultural and emotional. The films end differently. David Bordwell wrote that Ozu "re-cast" the original film instead of adapting it. The...
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  • co-authored two widely used film studies textbooks with her husband David Bordwell. Thompson earned her master's degree in film studies at the University...
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    been in scholarly debate since the 1980s. While some scholars such as David Bordwell suggested they were films that favor spectacle to storytelling, others...
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  • term "faux found-footage film" to describe some titles. Film scholar David Bordwell criticizes this recent usage, arguing that it sows confusion, and instead...
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  • matter deciding whether it should be considered a movement at all. David Bordwell has attempted to define a unified stylistic paradigm and set of tenets...
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  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169302/plotsummary Thompson, Kristin, and David Bordwell. Film History, An Introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social...
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  • on cinema". David Bordwell. Archived from the original on 18 June 2010. Retrieved 7 April 2010. "Observations on cinema". David Bordwell. Archived from...
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    2022, pp. 12–13. Bordwell, David (28 January 2019). "Nolan book 2.0: Cerebral blockbusters meet blunt-force cinephilia". DavidBordwell.net. Archived from...
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    opposed to the unfolding of a clear, goal-driven story. Film scholars David Bordwell and Barry Keith Grant describe art cinema as "a film genre, with its...
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  • of film writing, production, editing and criticism. American scholar David Bordwell has spoken against many prominent developments in film theory since...
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  • Rangers) (b. 1969) Virgil, 61, professional wrestler (b. 1962) February 29 David Bordwell, 76, film theorist and film historian (b. 1947) Betty Holzendorf, 84...
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  • Takashi Kawamata, and Ozu producer Shizuo Yamanouchi, and essays by David Bordwell and Jim Jarmusch. In 2010, the BFI released a Region 2 Dual Format Edition...
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  • 2011. Thompson, Kristin; Bordwell, David (August 12, 2010). "Revisiting Inception". Observations on Film Art. David Bordwell. Archived from the original...
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    ceased using tracking shots altogether in his colour films. However, David Bordwell argues that Ozu is one of the few directors to "create a systematic...
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  • movies... Bordwell, David (20 November 2008). "Observations on film art : It's the 80s, stupid". David Bordwell's website on cinema. David Bordwell & Kristin...
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    visual-narrative style of classical Hollywood cinema, as elaborated by David Bordwell, was heavily influenced by the ideas of the Renaissance and its resurgence...
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    relying on our sympathy for the characters' bizarre frailties." — David Bordwell Jensen co-wrote the film The Dark Tower with Nikolaj Arcel, Akiva Goldsman...
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  • "universal acclaim". One of the strongest supporters of About Elly is David Bordwell, film theorist and film critic, who has called it a masterpiece: "Gripping...
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  • State Senate (1983–2006) and House of Representatives (1977–1982). David Bordwell, 76, American film historian and theorist, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis...
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    presenting a clear, goal-driven story. According to the film scholar David Bordwell, "art cinema itself is a film genre, with its own distinct conventions...
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  • good breeding and boyish, flirtatious charm." American film theorist David Bordwell notes that the description might be applied to Haydon as well. The novel...
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  • Treasure". Chicago Sun-Times. Bordwell, David (January 5, 2008). "Your trash, my Treasure". Retrieved January 30, 2010. Bordwell, David (January 2008). "The Hook:...
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    themes of many of his films. Dreyer was ideologically conservative. David Bordwell stated "As a youth he belonged to the Social Liberal party, a conservative...
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    Bordwell, David (May 30, 2021). "Five Critics, One of Them a Killer". Observations on Film Art. Retrieved June 2, 2021. Book review by David Bordwell...
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  • psychologists Hugo Münsterberg and Rudolf Arnheim. Cognitive film theorists David Bordwell and Noël Carroll fostered its philosophical underpinnings. Film is rather...
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  • international popularity of Bruce Lee." For the Criterion Collection author David Bordwell wrote, "The story is simple, but the treatment is complex. No Shaw film...
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    Annette Kuhn Janet Staiger Linda Williams Noël Carroll Francesco Casetti David Bordwell Michel Chion B. Ruby Rich Slavoj Žižek Colin MacCabe Kristin Thompson...
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  • precision of the performances — this film is a work of absolute mastery." David Bordwell considers it his favorite Yang film and voted it as one of the 10 best...
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    Cutting Room,” The Perfect Vision no. 26 [September/October 1999], 27. David, Bordwell (2002). "Intensified Continuity: Visual Style in Contemporary American...
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