Making Meaning : Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema

作者：DavidBordwell

出版社：HarvardUniversityPress

副标题：InferenceandRhetoricintheInterpretationofCinema

出版年：1991-10-1

页数：352

定价：USD44.50

装帧：Paperback

ISBN：9780674543362

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David Bordwell's new book is at once a history of film criticism, an analysis of how critics interpret film, and a proposal for an alternative program for film studies. It is an anatomy of film criticism meant to reset the agenda for film scholarship. As such "Making Meaning" should be a landmark book, a focus for debate from which future film study will evolve. Bordwell systematically maps different strategies for interpreting films and making meaning, illustrating his points with a vast array of examples from Western film criticism. Following an introductory chapter that sets out the terms and scope of the argument, Bordwell goes on to show how critical institutions constrain and contain the very practices they promote, and how the interpretation of texts has become a central preoccupation of the humanities. He gives lucid accounts of the development of film criticism in France, Britain, and the United States since World War II; analyzes this development through two important types of criticism, thematic-explicatory and symptomatic; and shows that both types, usually seen as antithetical, in fact have much in common. These diverse and even warring schools of criticism share conventional, rhetorical, and problem-solving techniques–a point that has broad-ranging implications for the way critics practice their art. The book concludes with a survey of the alternatives to criticism based on interpretation and, finally, with the proposal that a historical poetics of cinema offers the most fruitful framework for film analysis.

作者简介
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大卫·波德维尔，美国当代电影理论家、电影史家，威斯康辛-麦迪逊大学传播学院电影研究雅克·勒杜（Jacques Ledoux）讲席教授，研究领域涵盖电影理论、电影批评、电影史等多个方面，主要学术著作有《世界电影史》《电影艺术：形式与风格》《制造电影的意义：对电影解方式的反思》《后理论：重建电影研究》《电影诗学》等，被翻译成多种语言文字，影响遍及世界各地。

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这本可以视作Bordwell整个学术版图的枢纽，其问题意识是anti-interpretation（本书极其细致地梳理了70年代以降的后结构主义世代下的电影解读的conceptual structures）；最后一章价值极大，（再次）提出“电影诗学”作为alternative choice（一方面是从电影的appearacne角度来关注组合与效果问题，恢复对感觉的重视；另一方面是历史诗学），大致说…

这本和Narration那本一起组成Bordwell的cognitive theory，或者说更是一个paradigm or system. Narration是讲comprehension，这本是讲interpretation. 实在无法否定Bordwell建立一个庞大系统的能力，而且是抓住一个之前的理论都没有好好讨论过的部分，真真让我想到“滴水不漏”这个词。当然批评与质疑也是大把，很多也是犀利…

叹为观止。

大卫·波德维尔的电影认知诗学研究做得非常扎实，虽然引起了不少争议，但却给当时宏大理论研究泛滥的电影艺术提供了一个别样的视角。去年波德维尔的妻子克里斯汀·汤普森的旧作《打破玻璃盔甲：新形式主义电影分析》的中文版也在国内由北大出版社出版了，研究内容即使放在现在来看也毫不过时。波德维尔夫妇的电影认知诗学与形式主义研究目前并未在我国引起足够的重视，希望能有更多的翻译家能译介波德维尔这对当今电影界学术大咖的…

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