Poetics of Cinema

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Poetics of Cinema is written by David Bordwell and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 113586781X (ISBN 10) and 9781135867812 (ISBN 13).

Bringing together twenty-five years of work on what he has called the "historical poetics of cinema," David Bordwell 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? For Bordwell, 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 cinematic purposes. With more than five hundred film stills, Poetics of Cinema is a must-have for any student of cinema.