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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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Bordwell has received more than 289,265 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. David Bordwell is the 519th most popular historian, the 10,106th most popular biography from United States and the 41st most popular American Historian.

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  • 43.49

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.53

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  • 2.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, David Bordwell ranks 519 out of 561. Before him are Mark Mazower, Drew Gilpin Faust, Albrecht Weber, Ivan Charota, R. H. Tawney, and Romila Thapar. After him are Andrei Lankov, Richard G. Hovannisian, David Abulafia, Gregory Areshian, Hugh N. Kennedy, and Edward Duyker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, David Bordwell ranks 722. Before him are Stephen R. Donaldson, Tomas Pettersson, Jan-Erik Enestam, Navin Ramgoolam, John Perry Barlow, and Françoise Demulder. After him are Ruhakana Rugunda, Dominique Baudis, Jacques-Édouard Alexis, Carole Bayer Sager, Erika Lechner, and Leonid Khabarov. Among people deceased in 2024, David Bordwell ranks 370. Before him are Bruce Ames, Comunardo Niccolai, Ivan Charota, Alexander Goehr, Domingo Pérez, and Manfred Wolke. After him are Gisela Birkemeyer, Edward C. Stone, Denílson Custódio Machado, James Sikking, John Haglelgam, and Dorothy Allison.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Bordwell ranks 10,106 out of 20,380. Before him are Frank Ramsey (1931), Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825), Dave Wottle (1950), Teri Polo (1969), Mike Honda (1941), and Joe Lo Truglio (1970). After him are Shirley Ann Jackson (1946), Sydney Sweeney (1997), Carey Bell (1936), Lee Strobel (1952), Janice Rule (1931), and David Costabile (1967).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, David Bordwell ranks 41. Before him are Christopher Lasch (1932), American Horse (1840), Stephen F. Cohen (1938), Stephen Greenblatt (1943), Carroll Quigley (1910), and Drew Gilpin Faust (1947). After him are Richard G. Hovannisian (1932), Richard Taruskin (1945), James H. Billington (1929), Elaine Pagels (1943), Mary Ritter Beard (1876), and Richard Hofstadter (1916).

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