Poetics of Cinema

Bringing together twenty-five years of work on what he has called the historical poetics of cinema, David Bordwell here presents an extended analysis of a key question for film studies: how are films made, in particular historical contexts, in order to achieve certain effects? Films are made things, existing within historical contexts, and aim to create determinate effects.Beginning with this central thesis, Bordwell works out a full understanding of how films channel and recast cultural influences for their own cinematic purposes.David Bordwell is the author of 'Poetics of Cinema', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415977784 and ISBN 0415977789.