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by Ann Shola Orloff (Author)
Most films tell tales, but what does that involve? How do motion pictures tease us into building what we all agree to call stories? In this study, David Bordwell offers the first comprehensive account of how movies use fundamental principles of narrative representation, unique features of the film medium, and diverse story-telling patterns to construct their fictional narratives. The result is a pioneering, far-reaching work which will change the way we perceive narrative film and which every serious film scholar, student or fan will welcome.
This book is of crucial importance to film specialists. I cannot think that any film teacher/scholar would miss reading this work. Don Fredricksen, Cornell University
David Bordwell s Narration in the Fiction Film is a major contribution to film studies and to narrative theory. The work, I predict, will be widely read, praised, debated, and damned. Brodwell s originality lies not so much in demonstrating the deficiencies of other theories, which he does very convincingly, but in the scope and design of his project, against which there is no competition of comparable intellectual weight. Jerry Carlson, DePaul University
Back Jacket
In the last years of the nineteenth century and the first years of the twentieth, social reformers, labor leaders, and political elites across Europe, North American, and the Antipodes were actively debating the 'social question.' This term referred to a range of issues, all of which in some way touched on the question of how increasingly well-organized and politically mobilized industrial working classes were to be integrated into the polity.
Author Biography
Ann Shola Orloff is associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the coeditor, with Margaret Weir and Theda Skocpol, of The Politics of Social Policy in the United States.
