LINKS
Website: www.davidbordwell.net
Blog: www.davidbordwell.net/blog
Kristin Thompson's blog on her book The Frodo Franchise: www.frodofranchise.com/blog/

CURRENT ACTIVITIES
Although I retired in the summer of 2004, I retain an active engagement with the Film area. I retain an office in the building and participate in the weekly Film Colloquium. I'm a consultant with the Cinematheque and the Wisconsin Film Festival, and I occasionally give guest lectures in courses. I expect to hold office hours once a week when I'm in town. I'm available for advice about research projects and the areas of film studies I work in: American cinema, Asian cinema, stylistics, narrative theory, and cognitive film theory.
My webpage is: davidbordwell.net, and my email address is bordwell@wisc.edu.

I study films as works of art, treating them as designed to elicit effects from audiences and as exploring what the medium is capable of. I study Hollywood cinema, from the beginning to the present, as well as cinemas of Europe (especially Scandinavia) and Asia (especially Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan). I'm interested in the history of film, particularly film technology and technique. I also try to build theories of how people make sense of movies, especially theories with some grounding in empirical research in perception, story comprehension, and comparable domains (ie, "cognitive" theories). I try to bring into my research relevant studies in adjacent arts, particularly literature, music, and the visual arts.

My wife, Kristin Thompson, is also a film researcher and quasi-professional Egyptologist.

DEGREES

• PhD., University of Iowa, 1974
  
• M.A., University of Iowa, 1971
  
• B.A., SUNY Albany, 1969

MAJOR HONORS/AWARDS

• Fellowships from the American Council of Learned
  Societies, NEH, Fulbright Foundation, and Guggenheim Foundation
  
• Chancellor's Outstanding Teaching Award, UW--Madison, 1984
  
• Honorary doctorate, University of Copenhagen, 1997.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming: Poetics of Cinema is due out October 16 from Routledge.

Film Art: An Introduction. Written with Kristin Thompson. Sixth edition, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000. Translated into Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Hungarian, French, and Persian.

The Films of Carl-Theodor Dreyer. Berkeley: University of California Press, l98l.

The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960. Written in collaboration with Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul; New York: Columbia University Press, l985. Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1985.Translated
into Spanish.

Narration in the Fiction Film. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press; London: Methuen, l985. Translated into Spanish, Hungarian, Chinese, and Persian.

Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema. London: British Film Institute; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. Translated into Japanese.

Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989. Transalted into Chinese and Spanish.

The Cinema of Eisenstein. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. Winner of 1993 Theatre Library Association Award for the outstanding book in film, broadcasting, or recorded performance. Translated into Chinese and Spanish.

Film History: An Introduction. Textbook written with Kristin Thompson (first-named author). 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, 2002. Translated into Italian, Chinese, and Korean.

Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies. Anthology, co-edited with Noël Carroll. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.

On the History of Film Style. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1998.

Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Film Lectures 2000. Munich: Verlag der Autoren. In German only.

Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies. Berkeley: University of California Press, spring 2006.

Poetics of Cinema is a forthcoming title to be published spring 2007.