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Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling – eBook

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  • Author: David Bordwell
  • File Size: 4 MB
  • Format: PDF
  • Length: 592 Pages
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Publication Date: October 2, 2017
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B074L2CP5Y
  • ISBN-10: 022648775X, 022648789X, 022663955X
  • ISBN-13: 9780226487755, 9780226487892, 9780226639550

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David Bordwell

David Bordwell

Professor David Bordwell is Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Department Madison's of Communication Arts.
He also has an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Copenhagen and a Hilldale Professorship in the Humanities. At the Library of Congress, he held the Kluge Chair in Modern Culture.

Narration in the Fiction Film (University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), On the History of Film Style (Harvard University Press, 1997), Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment (Harvard University Press, 2000; 2nd ed., Irvington Way Institute Press, 2011), Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging (University of California Press, 2005), The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies (the University of California Press, 2005), Film Art: An Introduction 12th Edition, The (University of Chicago Press, 2017).

He's published works on Carl Theodor Dreyer, Yasujiro Ozu, Sergei Eisenstein, digital cinema, and Hong Kong cinema, among other subjects.

In the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable ways. Soundtracks flaunted voice-over commentary, and characters might pivot from a scene to address the viewer. Incidents were replayed from different characters’ viewpoints, and sometimes those versions proved to be false. Films now plunged viewers into characters’ memories, dreams, and hallucinations. Some films didn’t have protagonists, while others centered on anti-heroes or psychopaths. Women might be on the verge of madness, and neurotic heroes lurched into violent confrontations. Combining many of these ingredients, a new genre emerged—the psychological thriller, populated by women in peril and innocent bystanders targeted for death.
If this sounds like today’s cinema, that’s because it is. In Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling (PDF), expert author David Bordwell examines the full range and depth of trends that crystallized into traditions. He shows how the Christopher Nolans and Quentin Tarantinos of today owe an immense debt to the dynamic, occasionally delirious narrative experiments of the Forties. Through in-depth analyses of films both famous and virtually unknown, from Our Town and All About Eve to Swell Guy and The Guilt of Janet Ames, Bordwell assesses the era’s unique achievements and its legacy for future filmmakers. Reinventing Hollywood is a groundbreaking study of how Hollywood storytelling became a more complex art and essential reading for lovers of popular cinema.

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