Poetics of cinema [Texte imprimé] / David Bordwell

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Poetics of cinema -- Convention, construction, and cinematic vision -- Three dimensions of film narrative -- Cognition and comprehension : viewing and forgetting in Mildred Pierce -- The art cinema as a mode of film practice -- Film futures -- Mutual friends and chronologies of chance -- Cinecerity -- Taking things to extremes : hallucinations courtesy of Robert Reinert -- CinemaScope : the modern miracle you see without glasses -- Who blinked first? -- Visual style in Japanese cinema, 1925-1945 -- A cinema of flourishes : decorative style in 1920s and 1930s Japanese film -- Aesthetics in action : kung-fu, gunplay, and cinematic expression -- Richness through imperfection : King Hu and the glimpse.