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David Bordwell

1947 - 2024

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David Jay Bordwell (; July 23, 1947 – February 29, 2024) was an American film theorist and film historian. After receiving his PhD from the University of Iowa in 1973, he wrote more than fifteen volumes on the subject of cinema including Narration in the Fiction Film (1985), Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema (1988), Making Meaning (1989), and On the History of Film Style (1997). With his wife Kristin Thompson, Bordwell wrote the textbooks Film Art (1979) and Film History (1994). Film Art, in its 12th edition as of 2019, is still used as a text in introductory film courses. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. David Bordwell is the 512th most popular historian (up from 519th in 2024), the 10,186th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,107th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, David Bordwell ranks 512 out of 561. Before him are N. G. L. Hammond, Jacques Barzun, Vladimir Ćorović, Christopher Lasch, Griselda Pollock, and Richard Overy. After him are Hugh N. Kennedy, Robert Kagan, George Grote, R. H. Tawney, Orlando Figes, and Andreas Maislinger.

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Among people born in 1947, David Bordwell ranks 735. Before him are Yulia Ryabchinskaya, Cemil Turan, Peter Nogly, Elena Solovey, Arantxa Urretabizkaia, and Rajko Đurić. After him are John Perry Barlow, Emlyn Hughes, Buddy Miles, Ron Freeman, Hugh N. Kennedy, and Debra Mooney. Among people deceased in 2024, David Bordwell ranks 440. Before him are David Seidler, Robert Dill-Bundi, Richard M. Sherman, Phil Donahue, Janusz Majewski, and Mustapha Moussa. After him are Kenjiro Shinozuka, Achim Müller, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Yamini Krishnamurthy, José Carlos de Almeida, and Steve Albini.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Bordwell ranks 10,186 out of 20,380. Before him are Julianne Nicholson (1971), Joseph Ruben (1950), Lynn Harrell (1944), and Jean Parker (1915). After him are Jack Holt (1888), Earl Eby (1894), Frankie Muniz (1985), John Colter (1774), Bob Foster (1942), June Gable (1945), James H. Clark (1944), and John Perry Barlow (1947).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, David Bordwell ranks 43. Before him are Samuel Eliot Morison (1887), Alfred W. Crosby (1931), Daniel Pipes (1949), American Horse (1840), Richard Taruskin (1945), and Christopher Lasch (1932). After him are Carroll Quigley (1910), Richard Hofstadter (1916), Francis Parkman (1823), Anthony Grafton (1950), Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942), and Bernard Bailyn (1922).

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