David Bordwell is Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has written several books on film aesthetics and history, most recently Poetics of Cinema (Routledge, 2008), Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment, 2nd ed. (Irvington Way Institute Press), Pandora’s Digital Box: Films, Files, and the Future of Movies (Irvington Way Institute Press), and The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture (University of Chicago Press). He and Kristin Thompson, his coauthor on Film Art: An Introduction, 11th ed. (McGrawl-Hill, 2016), blog at www.davidbordwell.net.