Books by David (University of Wisconsin-Madison Bordwell

Presents an analysis of a key question for film studies: how are films made, in particular historical contexts, in order to achieve certain effects? This book shows how films channel and recast cultural influences for their cinematic purposes.

An examination of Sergei Eisenstein's distictive contributions to filmmaking and film theory. It provides the only comprehensive guide in English to the range of Eisenstein's achievements in cinema.

Acclaimed for its breakthrough approach and its combination of theoretical analysis and empirical evidence, this is the standard work on the classical Hollywood cinema style of film-making from the silent era to the 1960s.