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David Bordwell, Film Scholar and Longtime Criterion Collection Contributor, Dies at 76
David Bordwell, the renowned film professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has died at the age of 76 after battling a 'long disease.'
UW-Madison described Bordwell as a prolific researcher, dedicated teacher and passionate cinephile — a man who helped guide “countless colleagues, students, and film lovers to heightened awareness of the medium’s artistic possibilities.” “To me, he was America’s André Bazin, a thinker and historian who massively expanded the field and found a way to marry theory and criticism in a wholly new way,” Chazelle continued. Other notable works of his included 1980’s “The Films of Carl-Theodor Dreyer”; 1985’s “The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960”; 1988’s “Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema”; 2000’s “Planet Hong Kong”; 2005’s “Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging”; and 2006’s “The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies.”
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