About the Authors| Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell are married and live in Madison, Wisconsin.
Kristin Thompson is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Communication Arts 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), Wooster Proposes, Jeeves Disposes; or Le Mot Juste (James H. Heinemann, 1992), a study of P.G. Wodehouse, and Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique (Harvard University Press, 1999). She is currently at work on a study of Ernst Lubitsch's silent features. She is also an amateur Egyptologist and a member of an expedition to Egypt.
David Bordwell is Jacques Ledoux Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He also holds a Hilldale Professorship in the Humanities. He completed a master's degree and a doctorate in film from the University of Iowa. His books include The Films of Carl-Theodor Dreyer (University California Press, 1981), Narration in the Fiction Film (University Wisconsin Press, 1985), Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema (Princeton University Press, 1988), Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema (Harvard University Press, 1989), The Cinema of Eisenstein (Harvard University Press, 1993), On the History of Film Style (Harvard University Press, 1997), Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment (Harvard University Press, 2000), and Visual Style in Cinema: Vier Kapitel Filmgeschichte (Verlag der Autoren, 2001). He has won a University Distinguished Teaching Award.
The authors have previously collaborated on Film Art: An Introduction (McGraw-Hill), and with Janet Staiger, on The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960 (Columbia University Press, 1985).
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