Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema

by David Bordwell

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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.

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