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Film Art: An Introduction, 8/e

David Bordwell, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Kristin Thompson, University of Wisconsin, Madison

What's New

Chapter 1 opens with a new lead-in section that discusses the issues of film as an art-form before launching into talking about the technology and institutions behind filmmaking. The authors showcase Hitchcock’s classic film, Shadow of a Doubt as the chapter-opening example.
Key organizational change. Parts Three and Four from 7/e have been switched so that the "Types of Films" chapters on genre and on documentary, experimental and animated films now follow the four chapters on film techniques. Film techniques now come earlier and the analyses of the examples of documentary, experimental, and animated films are now continuous texts.
Revised "Where to Go from Here" sections raise more issues to provoke class discussions. It also suggests further reading for research, acting as a bibliographic source for specific issues in the chapter. New to this edition, the authors have also provided simple exercises to help students better understand film techniques.
Film Art makes use of more films stills than any other intro film text on the market. Core technique chapters 4, 5, and 6 on mise-en-scene, cinematography, and editing are particularly densely illustrated.
Text draws upon a greater range of films from various periods and countries for its examples than other textbooks. The cinematography (5) and editing (6) chapters have many illustrations from many sorts of films.
A text-specific tutorial CD-ROM will help clarify and reinforce specific concepts addressed in the text with the use of film clips (1-2 per chapter), a corresponding commentary for each film clip, and a quiz for students to take to test their understanding of the material. This CD-ROM will be packaged FREE with all new copies of Film Art,8/e.
A new film Blog. In this blog, the authors will share their ideas and experiences with instructors and students. Updated every two weeks this weblog will feature film reviews, reports from film festivals, possibly interviews, and discussions of a broad variety of film topics. This feature will be aimed at supplementing the book’s contents with a more informal, appealing, and updated set of supplementary materials.
The McGraw-Hill Film Viewer’s Guide (a booklet with important tips on film viewing and analysis) which was published as a separate pamphlet for a few editions, is now being reincorporated into the text as an introduction to the "Sample Analyses" chapter.

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