Minding Movies
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Minding Movies

Observations on the Art, Craft, and Business of Filmmaking

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eBook - PDF

Minding Movies

Observations on the Art, Craft, and Business of Filmmaking

About this book

David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson are two of America's preeminent film scholars. You would be hard pressed to find a serious student of the cinema who hasn't spent at least a few hours huddled with their seminal introduction to the field—Film Art, now in its ninth edition—or a cable television junkie unaware that the Independent Film Channel sagely christened them the "Critics of the Naughts." Since launching their blog Observations on Film Art in 2006, the two have added web virtuosos to their growing list of accolades, pitching unconventional long-form pieces engaged with film artistry that have helped to redefine cinematic storytelling for a new age and audience.

Minding Movies presents a selection from over three hundred essays on genre movies, art films, animation, and the business of Hollywood that have graced Bordwell and Thompson's blog. Informal pieces, conversational in tone but grounded in three decades of authoritative research, the essays gathered here range from in-depth analyses of individual films such as Slumdog Millionaire and Inglourious Basterds to adjustments of Hollywood media claims and forays into cinematic humor. For Bordwell and Thompson, the most fruitful place to begin is how movies are made, how they work, and how they work on us. Written for film lovers, these essays—on topics ranging from Borat to blockbusters and back again—will delight current fans and gain new enthusiasts.

Serious but not solemn, vibrantly informative without condescension, and above all illuminating reading, Minding Movies offers ideas sure to set film lovers thinking—and keep them returning to the silver screen.

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Business
Kristin 
here:
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just 
returned 
from 
two 
weeks 
in 
Egypt, 
and 
on 
the 
ten-hour 
flight 
from 
Cairo 
to 
New 
York, 
I 
had 
plenty 
of 
time 
to 
absorb 
the 
contents 
of 
the 
February 
24–25 
edition 
of 
the 
International 
Herald 
Tribune
. 
One 
of 
its 
articles, 
“Hollywood 
Rides 
Off
into 
the 
Setting 
Sun,” 
proclaimed 
the 
im-
minent 
decline 
of 
Hollywood.
The 
coauthors 
of 
this 
article 
are 
Nathan 
Gardels, 
editor 
of 
New 
Perspec-
tives 
Quarterly
(
NPQ
) 
and 
Global 
Viewpoint
, 
and 
Michael 
Medavoy, 
CEO 
of 
Phoenix 
Pictures 
and 
producer 
of, 
among 
many 
others, 
Miss 
Potter
. 
These 
two 
men 
are, 
according 
to 
the 
biographical 
blurb 
accompanying 
the 
World 
Rejects 
Hollywood 
Blockbusters!?
February 
28, 
2007
(T)Raumschiff 
Surprise—Periode 
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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Part One: The Business
  5. Part Two: Writing about Movies
  6. Part Three: Film as Art
  7. Part Four: Storytelling and Style
  8. Part Five: Films
  9. Part Six: Into the Future
  10. Index