The Film Studies Department holds a series of talks by local and visiting filmmakers, film critics, and film scholars. Actors, directors, cinematographers, editors, independent filmmakers, screenwriters, grips, producers, makeup artists, agents and others share their experiences working inside the entertainment industry.
For more information, call the Film Studies Department office at 962-7502.
Moviemakers and Scholars Series Presents
David Bordwell
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
All events are free and open to the public
At 7:45pm in King Auditorium (King 101), Bordwell will lecture on the impact of Cinemascope on filmmaking in Hollywood and beyond. Cinemascope was the wide-screen format developed by Hollywood to compete with the new competition of television in the 1950s. Changing the shape of the screen demanded new technologies that affected the way that scenes were staged and photographed. Bordwell will explain the range of stylistic options available to filmmakers in the age of Cinemascope, and how these options have affected storytelling and visual style in film.
Acclaim for the work of David Bordwell:
"David Bordwell is our best writer on the cinema. He is deeply informed about films, he loves them, and he writes about them with a clarity and perception that makes the prose itself a joy to read."--Roger Ebert, film critic, Chicago Sun Times
"There is nobody writing about film with the wisdom and insight of David Bordwell. His work makes me feel as though the creative process I know and live through writing and shooting films is being thoughtfully examined and put in a context…He finds the meaning in movies, instead of putting it there."--James Mangold, director of Walk the Line and 3:10 to Yuma
David Bordwell is one of the world's leading scholars of film. Bordwell's many interests are reflected by his variety of books, ranging from historical studies of contemporary Hollywood (The Way Hollywood Tells It), and Hong Kong cinema (Planet Hong Kong), to the analysis of staging and style in film (Figures Traced in Light). Along with his wife, Kristin Thompson, he wrote the two major textbooks for the field of film studies: Film Art and Film History. As an internationally renowned researcher, professor, and leader of the film program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bordwell has inspired generations of film students to pursue cinema scholarship.
UNCW Film Studies Classroom Visits
On Tuesday, February 19, Bordwell will also visit classes in the UNCW Film Studies department. The general public and UNCW students are welcome to sit in on these class meetings:
9:45 a.m. in King Auditorium (KI 101)
FST 385: Japanese Cinema
Bordwell will lecture on Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu. Bordwell is the author of Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema (1988).
1:30 p.m. in King Auditorium (KI 101)
FST 376: American Cinema 1927-1960
Bordwell has written extensively on Hollywood storytelling, most notably in his three books Narration in the Fiction Film, The Classical Hollywood Cinema, and The Way Hollywood Tells It. The Q & A session will focus in particular on his essay, “Classical Hollywood Cinema: Narrational Principles and Procedures.” Those interested can download the essay from the library reserve website here, under the course reserve page for FST 376; the title of the file is “Bordwell.ClassicalHollywood.pdf.”
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Past MovieMakers and Scholars
Barbara
D'Alessandro - Assistant Director
Joe D'Alessandro
- Cinematographer & Camera Operator
Adam Alphin - Director,
Editor, Cinematographer
David Andrews -
Actor
Tony Arnaud - Actor,
Stuntman and Technician
Dan Brawley - Director, Cucalorus Film Foundation
Ian Hayes Brett - Screenwriter
Stanley Colbert - Producer, Director, Screenwriter, Publishing Executive, and Literary
Agent, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at UNCW
John Copeman - Stunt Coordinator
Bill Davis - Art Director
and Production Designer
Ritt Deitz - Executive Director
of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Professional French Masters Program
Erica Dunton
Flex Fest - Experimental Film Festival Tour
Les Franck - Film Producer
Michael Frierson - Director of Graduate Studies for the MFA in Film and Video Production
at the UNC-G.
Mark Fincannon - Casting Director
Samba Gadjigo
Michael Gitlin - Filmmaker
Johnny Griffin - Director
of the Wilmington Regional Film Commission, Inc.
Jeff Goodwin - Make-up
and Special-effects Artist
Jim Haverkamp -
Filmmaker
Judith Helfand -
Documentary Filmmaker
Gill Holland - Producer
Pat Hingle - Actor
Robert Inman - Screenwriter,
Novelist, Columnist
Lamont Johnson -
Director
Lainie Johnston - Producer
Peter Jurasik -
Actor
Brad Karl - Southeast
District Executive-Screen Actors Guild (SAG)
John Kretschmer - Production designer
Richard Leder - Screenwriter
Drew Levinson
Kate Miller - Producer
Rex Miller - Photojournalist/Writer/Director/Producer
Bob Mondello -
Film Critic
Richard Neupert - Film Scholar and Author
Don Payne - Producer, Writer
Greg Prange - Producer,
Director
John Pruitt - Scholar and Author
Dale Pollock - Writer, Producer, and Dean of the School of Filmmaking at the North
Carolina School of the Arts
Tom Priestley Jr., ASC - Cinematographer
Bob Reiss - Writer
Jordan Rhodes - Actor,
Director, Writer, and Producer
Todd Rohal - Filmmaker
Andy Sacks - Producer
Ira Sachs - Director and Screenwriter
Lynne Sachs - Documentary Filmmaker
Patrick Stettner - Filmmaker
Jim Taylor - Writer
Terry Theodore
Onur Tukel - Filmmaker
John Ward - Writer,
Director, Actor
Bo Webb, Dan Turek - Camera Assistants and Independent Filmmakers
Gary Wheeler
Alonzo Wilson - Costume Designer
Rachel Wimberly - Writer
Frederick Wiseman - Documentary Filmmaker
Dale Williams - Associate Producer
Samm-Art Williams - Playwright, Screenwriter, Actor, and Producer
Jerry Ziesmer -
Assistant Director, Actor, Author
John Hulme - Documentary Filmmaker