David Bordwell je Jacques Ledoux profesor filmskih studija na sveučilištu Wisconsin u Madisonu (SAD), te (ko) autor knjiga: Film Art: An Introduction (1980), The Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer (1981), The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production (u suradnji s Janet Steiger i Kristin Thompson, 1985), Narration in the Fiction Film (1985), Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema (1988), Making Meaning: Inference and Rethoric in the Interpretation of Cinema (1989), The Cinema of Eisenstein (1993), On the History of Film Style (1997), Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment (2000), Film History: An Introduction (s Kristin Thompson, 2002) i Figures Traced in Light (2005).