Film History：An Introduction

KristinThompsonisanHonoraryFellowattheUniversityofWisconsin-Madison.Sheholdsamaster’sdegreeinfilmfromtheUniversityofIowaandadoctorateinfilmfromtheUniversityofWisconsin-Madison.ShehaspublishedEisenstein'sIvantheTerrible:ANeoformalistAnalysis(PrincetonUniversityPress,1981),ExportingEntertainment:AmericaintheWorldFilmMarket1907-1934(BritishFilmInstitute,1985),BreakingtheGlassArmor:NeoformalistFilmAnalysis(PrincetonUniversityPress,1988),WoosterProposes,JeevesDisposes,or,LeMotJuste(JamesH.Heineman,1992),StorytellingintheNewHollywood:UnderstandingClassicalNarrativeTechnique(HarvardUniversityPress,1999),StorytellinginFilmandTelevision(HarvardUniversityPress,2003),HerrLubitschGoestoHollywood:GermanandAmericanFilmafterWorldWarI(AmsterdamUniversityPress,2005),andTheFrodoFranchise:TheLordoftheRingsandModernHollywood(UniversityofCaliforniaPress,2007).SheblogswithDavidatwww.davidbordwell.net/blog.Shemaintainsherownblog,"TheFrodoFranchise,"atwww.kristinthompson.net/blog.InhersparetimeshestudiesEgyptology.DavidBordwellisJacquesLedouxProfessorEmeritusofFilmStudiesattheUniversityofWisconsin-Madison.Heholdsamaster'sdegreeandadoctorateinfilmfromtheUniversityofIowa.HisbooksincludeTheFilmsofCarlTheodorDreyer(UniversityofCaliforniaPress,1981),NarrationintheFictionFilm(UniversityofWisconsinPress,1985),OzuandthePoeticsofCinema(PrincetonUniversityPress,1988),MakingMeaning:InferenceandRhetoricintheInterpretationofCinema(HarvardUniversityPress,1989),TheCinemaofEisenstein(HarvardUniversityPress,1993),OntheHistoryofFilmStyle(HarvardUniversityPress,1997),PlanetHongKong:PopularCinemaandtheArtofEntertainment(HarvardUniversityPress,2000),FiguresTracedinLight:OnCinematicStaging(UniversityofCaliforniaPress,2005),TheWayHollywoodTellsIt:StoryandStyleinModernMovies(UniversityofCaliforniaPress,2006),andThePoeticsofCinema(Routledge,2008).HehaswonaUniversityDistinguishedTeachingAwardandwasawardedanhonorarydegreebytheUniversityofCopenhagen.Hiswesiteiswww.davidbordwell.net.