# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-bordwell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:04:54.628Z

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name: "David Bordwell"
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description: "David Jay Bordwell 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)."
tagline: "American film historian (1947–2024)"
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birthDate: "1947-07-23"
deathDate: "2024-02-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump