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David Bordwell

American film historian

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born
1947
died
2024
age at death
76
known for
historian, university teacher, film theorist

1947 – 2024

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David Jay Bordwell was an American film theorist and film historian. After receiving his PhD from the University of Iowa in 1973, he wrote more than fifteen volumes on the subject of cinema including Narration in the Fiction Film (1985), Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema (1988), Making Meaning (1989), and On the History of Film Style (1997).

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