Bringing together twentyfive years of work on what he has called thehistorical poetics of cinema David Bordwell presents an extended analysis ofa key question f... » 

Bringing together twentyfive years of work on what he has called thehistorical poetics of cinema David Bordwell presents an extended analysis ofa key question for film studies how are films made in particular historicalcontexts in order to achieve certain effects? For Bordwell films are madethings existing within historical contexts and aim to create determinateeffects. Beginning with this central thesis Bordwell works out a fullunderstanding of how films channel and recast cultural influences for theircinematic purposes. With more than five hundred film stills Poetics of Cinemais a musthave for any student of cinema. «