Making meaning inference and rhetoric in the interpretation of cinema

Making Meaning Harvard Film Studies Making Meaning I nftrence and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema David Bordwell Harvard University Press Cambridge) Massachusetts London) England Copyright © 1989 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 1991 Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bordwell, David Making meaning : inference and rhetoric in the interpretation of cinema / David Bordwell p em Bibliography: p Iricludes index ISBN 0-674-54335-1 (alk paper) (cloth) ISBN 0-674-54336-X (paper) I Film criticism Motion pictures I Title PN1995.B6172 1989 791.43'01 '5