What Is Cinema? Volume I

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Beskrivning

Andre Bazin's What Is Cinema? (volumes I and II) have been classics of film studies for as long as they've been available and are considered the gold standard in the field of film criticism. Although Bazin made no films, his name has been one of the most important in French cinema since World War II. He was co-founder of the influential Cahiers du Cinema, which under his leadership became one of the world's most distinguished publications. Championing the films of Jean Renoir (who contributed a short foreword to Volume I), Orson Welles, and Roberto Rossellini, he became the protege of Francois Truffaut, who honors him touchingly in his forword to Volume II. This new edition includes graceful forewords to each volume by Bazin scholar and biographer Dudley Andrew, who reconsiders Bazin and his place in contemporary film study. The essays themselves are erudite but always accessible, intellectual, and stimulating. As Renoir puts it, the essays of Bazin "will survive even if the cinema does not."

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-12-13
Mått:140 x 210 x 13 mm
Vikt:272 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Upplaga:2
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520242272
Översättare:Gray, Hugh

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Andre Bazin (1918--1958) was one of France's best-known and respected film critics, and mentor to such directors as Truffaut and Godard. Hugh Gray (translator, 1900--1981) was Professor of Film, Theater, Aesthetics, and Humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Loyola Marymount University. Dudley Andrew is Professor of Film Studies and of Comparative Literature at Yale University. He is the author of Andre Bazin (1990) and Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film (1995).

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"Although Andre Bazin died shortly before the onset of what we now regard as the modern cinema, our understanding of this cinema wouldn't be the same without him. He's also one of the most scrupulous humanists and polemicists we've had, on a par with George Orwell, and these essays map out the busy highways we're all still navigating." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic for the Chicago Reader"

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword to the 2004 EditionIntroductionThe Ontology of the Photographic ImageThe Myth of Total CinemaThe Evolution of the Language of CinemaThe Virtues and Limitations of MontageIn Defense of Mixed CinemaTheater and CinemaPart OnePart TwoLe Journal d'un cure de campagne and theStylistics of Robert BressonCharlie ChaplinCinema and ExplorationPainting and CinemaNotesIndex