According to foreign media reports, the famous American scholar David Podwell died of lung cancer on February 29 at the age of 76. His works such as "Film Art", "World History of Film" and "Poetics of Film" have benefited countless people who study film, and are the required reading list for many film students, and it is also an introductory book for many filmmakers on film theory.
David Bordwell's many studies have influenced filmmakers around the world.
Born in 1947, David Bordwell began writing about film criticism while a student at the State University of New York at Sunny Albany, which has been published in the newspapers. In 1974, Podwell earned his Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa. After that, Baldwell began a teaching career that lasted for more than 40 years at the prestigious university of Wisconsin, during which he and his wife Christine Thompson wrote a lot and some of the theories were influential in the academic community, and it was because of Baldwell's continuous progress in film studies that after his retirement, the University of Wisconsin, where he had worked for many years, hired him as a retired professor emeritus in the School of Communication.
During his more than 40 years of teaching, he has published and published books focusing on film theory, film history, film formal aesthetics, film poetics, and the personal style of individual film directors. In the same way, he has an in-depth and continuous research on Asian cinema, especially important film directors in Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. He has written the book PlanetHongkong: PopularcinemaandtHeartof Entertainment, which specializes in Hong Kong cinema. After that, many people described the most frequent appearance of Hong Kong movies as "all over-the-top and crazy", which is from the book. Many film scholars have published that David Bordwell is a true giant in the field of film studies, his writings have shaped countless people's views and perceptions of film, and his "students" can be said to be all over the world, learning how to read, think and love movies from his knowledge and theory.
*: Beijing News.