5/13/2023 0 Comments Bordwell film![]() Louis gives us the opportunity to hear Bordwell’s latest pitch for why movie history matters.īordwell’s advocacy for movie history can be situated in the earliest efforts to transform film studies into an academic field. ![]() An upcoming series of talks at Washington University in St. With the stakes so high, Bordwell has advocated passionately and mightily for movie history as a distinct discipline, as a unique way of understanding the major currents of modern art and life. A robust history of movies, his work demonstrates, not only promises an understanding of the business and art of moving image production over the last 120 years, but a sense of the roots of media culture today. ![]() Since the publication of his first book in 1981, David Bordwell has returned to this question repeatedly, consistently rethinking the role that movie history - or, better yet, movie historiography (the writing of movie history) - can play within the academy and culture at large. ![]()
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