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).

"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"

• 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

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).

"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"

• 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

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).

"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"

• 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