Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema

by David Bordwell

Book Overview

David Bordwell's new book is at once a history of film criticism, an analysis of how critics interpret film, and a proposal for an alternative program for film studies. It is an anatomy of film criticism meant to reset the agenda for film scholarship. As such Making Meaning should be a landmark book, a focus for debate from which future film study will evolve. Bordwell systematically maps different strategies for interpreting films and making meaning,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674543351
• ISBN13: 9780674543355
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.