TY  - GEN
T1  - Making meaning : inference and rhetoric in the interpretation of cinema
T2  - Harvard film studies.
A1  - Bordwell, David
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
YR  - 1989
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn464602030
AB  - 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, illustrating his points with a vast array of examples from Western film criticism. Following an introductory chapter that sets out the terms and scope of the argument, Bordwell goes on to show how critical institutions constrain and contain the very practices they promote, and how the interpretation of texts has become a central preoccupation of the humanities. He gives lucid accounts of the development of film criticism in France, Britain, and the United States since World War II; analyzes this development through two important types of criticism, thematic-explicatory and symptomatic; and shows that both types, usually seen as antithetical, in fact have much in common. These diverse and even warring schools of criticism share conventional, rhetorical, and problem-solving techniques--a point that has broad-ranging implications for the way critics practice their art. The book concludes with a survey of the alternatives to criticism based on interpretation and, finally, with the proposal that a historical poetics of cinema offers the most fruitful framework for film analysis.
OP  - 334
CN  - PN1995 .B6172 1989eb
SN  - 9780674028531
SN  - 0674028538
SN  - 067454336X
SN  - 9780674543362
SN  - 0674543351
SN  - 9780674543355
KW  - Film criticism.
KW  - Motion pictures.
KW  - Cinéma vérité.
KW  - Motion Pictures.
KW  - Critique cinématographique.
KW  - Cinéma direct.
KW  - Cinéma : Philosophie.
KW  - Cinéma.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : History & Criticism.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : General.
KW  - Cinéma vérité
KW  - Film criticism
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Filmkunst.
KW  - Interpretatie.
KW  - Cinema films : Criticism
KW  - Films.
ER  -