Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, David Bordwell, Kri...

Written by two of the leading scholars in film studies, Film History: An Introduction 4e is a com...

Bringing together twenty-five years of work on what he has called the "e;historical poetics o...

David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson are two of America's preeminent film scholars. You would be h...

Hollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since...

David Bordwell's new book is at once a history of film criticism, an analysis of how critics inte...

In the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable w...

Bringing together twenty-five years of work on what he has called the "e;historical poetics o...

For nearly half a century, Roger Ebert's wide knowledge, keen judgment, prodigious energy, and sh...

David Bordwell reveals how crime fiction, plays, and films made unconventional narrative mainstre...

Roger Ebert has been writing film reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times for over four decades now and...

'A dense, challenging and important book.' Philip French Observer'At the very least, this blockbu...