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  <title><![CDATA[Film Art: An Introduction (Seventh Edition)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;i&gt;Film Art&lt;/i&gt; is often assigned to college students taking  their first film class. Authors David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson do  not follow the traditional method of teaching film art through a close  analysis of individual films. Instead, they provide an overview of the  major issues students confront when they watch movies. In clear,  straightforward prose, the authors describe and dissect the complexities  of filmmaking, film narrative, film form, and film technique. This book  serves as a fine introduction not only to the field of film studies, but also  to the theories and concerns of two of the most important scholars in that  field.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yes, it's a textbook, but it was actually fun to read :-) Lots of illustrations too, and it enhanced my appreciation of movies :-)]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Aug 10 07:20:43 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Film Art was my first book on film studies. I was not yet an avid film students by then, but this book captured my interest so deep as then it made me impatiently waiting for my future film-study classes. <br/><br/>It's not a manual book of film techniques. Yet it does encompass that issues from a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29753552">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[film-lovers, animators, film-makers]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had to read this book when I attended Image and Media Technology at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, and it taught me a lot about films, how they are made, what imaging can portray, etcetera. If you are a film lover and you feel you would like to get some background on it instead of just po...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50263376">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A mix of patronizing simple concepts and deep, thought-provoking ideas. Weird.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Film Art: An Introduction by David Bordwell (1990)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[good for students who need linear text to understand history and the cannon of film history<br/>easy for teacher to organize their class when students are so inclined to even fall asleep on Citizen Kane... but hey, it's made 1941 and they prolly can make more captivating classics in 10 years]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book is very information dense. It is packed with references to films that should be well known to good students of film studies. Unfortunately, it is so packed with references and information that reading often becomes tedious.]]></body>
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    <review id="4600911">
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    <body><![CDATA[gorgeous textbook, great design, and the co-authors are married and great to work with.  The authors have a blog here: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/">http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/</a> lots of interesting film stuff.<br/>I want to watch Buck Toothed Women now.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bordwell is a talented writer. Wether or not you agree with his theories, he is an interesting an important figure in film theory. I don't agree with all his obsevrations, but he does argue well for his theories.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A formalist, narrow-minded approach to cinema. Bordwell and Thompson actually believe in structuralism, which would be cute and nostalgic if they weren't taken so seriously by the academy.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The best textbook on film form for the beginning or aspiring filmmaker. If someone wants to understand the basics of film language, this is the first book to read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[agak berat dibandingkan bukunya katz. tapi buku ini boleh dikutip untuk karya ilmiah, karena isinya lumayan teoretis, bukan buku how to. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Everything you ever need to know about anything to do with film production is right here]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a great introduction to Film Studies.]]></body>
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