FIGURES TRACED IN LIGHT: ON CINEMATIC STAGING
Book ID/图书代码： 13520013B64704
English Summary/英文概要： A film tells its story not only through dialogue and actors’ performances but also through the director’s control of movement and shot design. Figures Traced in Light is a detailed consideration of how cinematic staging carries the story, expresses emotion, and beguiles the audience through pictorial composition. Ranging over the entire history of cinema, David Bordwell focuses on four filmmakers’ unique contributions to the technique. In-depth chapters examine Louis Feuillade, master of the 1910s serial; Kenji Mizoguchi, the great Japanese director who worked from the 1920s to the 1950s; Theo Angelopoulos, who began his career as a political modernist in the late 1960s; and Hou Hsiao-hsien, the Taiwanese filmmaker who in the 1980s became the preeminent Asian director. For comparison, Bordwell draws on films by Howard Hawks, Michelangelo Antonioni, Yasujiro Ozu, Takeshi Kitano, and many other directors. Superbly illustrated with more than 500 frame enlargements and 16 color illustrations, Figures Traced in Light situates its close analysis of model sequences in the context of the technological, industrial, and cultural trends that shaped the directors’ approaches to staging.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 電影的敘事不僅依賴對話和演員的表演，更依賴導演對鏡頭運動和鏡頭設計的控制。 本書書深入探討了電影的場景調度如何承載故事、表達情感，並透過畫面構圖吸引觀眾。大衛‧博德威爾(DAVID BORDWELL)縱覽電影史，重點分析了四位電影人對電影技法的獨特貢獻。書中各章節分別深入剖析了路易·費亞德（20世紀10年代電影大師）、溝口健二（20世紀20年代至50年代的日本偉大導演）、西奧·安哲羅普洛斯（20世紀60年代末以政治現代主義導演起家）以及侯孝賢（20世紀80年代成為亞洲電影界領軍人物的台灣導演）。為了進行比較，博德威爾也引用了霍華德·霍克斯、米開朗基羅·安東尼奧尼、小津安二郎、北野武等眾多導演的作品。 本書配有超過500幅放大圖和16幅彩色插圖，圖文並茂，將對模型序列的細緻分析置於塑造導演舞台呈現方式的技術、工業和文化趨勢的背景下進行探討。(Zoe)
Awards/获奖情况：“Figures Traced in Light makes us feel as though we have received a long and elaborate postcard from a friend who has gone on an expedition to some terra icognita. This latest communication, dated 2005, is excellent. . . . The cleverness and agility of the comments never burden Bordwell’s respect for the filmic text.”—Film Quarterly
"The choreography of cinematic creation is stunningly revealed in this learned and lively book. Finely historical with meticulous descriptions of directors, actors, and cameras in motion, Figures Traced In Light registers for the first time the abiding patterns of cinematic staging around the world and through the years. "—Janet Walker, author of Trauma Cinema
Awards:
•IV "Limina - Carnica" Award for Italian and International Film Studies Books published in 2005, Carnica Assicurazioni and Movimento del Turismo - Delegazione del Friuli-Venezia
About the Author/作者介绍： 大衛·博德威爾(David Bordwell)是威斯康辛大學麥迪遜分校雅克·勒杜電影研究教授和希爾代爾人文教授。他的著作包括《電影史導論》（與克莉絲汀湯普森合著，2002年）、《香港星球：大眾電影與娛樂藝術》（2000年）和《論電影風格史》（1997年）。
David Bordwell is Jacques Ledoux Professor of Film Studies and Hilldale Professor of Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Among his books are Film History: An Introduction (with Kristin Thompson, 2002), Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment (2000), and On the History of Film Style (1997).
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