André Bazin on Documentary

André Bazin (1918–1958), cofounder of the renowned Cahiers du cinéma, was a supremely influential French film critic and theorist.Dudley Andrew is author of many books, including What Cinema Is! Bazin's Quest and Its Charge, and has edited several collections of writings by and about Bazin. Named a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, he is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and of Film at Yale University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Deborah Glassman has translated numerous scholarly works, including Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives and History of Structuralism, both by François Dosse. Formerly the director of the CIEE-UC film program in Paris, she has worked for decades in France, Tunisia, and other Francophone countries.Nataša Ďurovičová is a film scholar and translator who works on the history of language transfers in cinema. She recently retired from her position as house editor of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, where she also taught the program's translation workshop.

• Contents  Acknowledgments       Introduction: Exploring Bazin on Documentary            PART ONE. FILMS OF EXPLORATION  1. The Evolution of the Exploration Film       2. Kon-Tiki; The Grandeur and Servitude of Filmed Reportage         3. Scott of the Antarctic: Ice Without Eskimos          4. Le Monde de silence (dir. Jacques Cousteau)        5. A Terrific Program: Annapurna, Water Birds, Le Grand Méliès     6. Spiritual Adventures: Naufragé volontaire and La Forêt sacrée    7. La Forêt sacrée (The sacred forest)8. Iawa: Man, the Unknown  9. Now Showing: Lost Continent       10. Lost Continent     11. A Mock Documentary: Lost Continent    12. Naked Amazon, “Dressed Up” Just a Bit  13. Empire in the Sun14. The Last Paradise 15. Will Italian Cinema Abandon . . . Neorealism for Neo-exoticism?          16. The Flute and the Arrow at Cannes         17. Hunters, Learn to Hunt!   18. Paysans noirs (Black farmers)      19. A Teacher in Africa: La Plus Belle des vies 20. Les Maîtres fous (dir. Jean Rouch)  PART TWO. DOCUMENTARY SUBJECTS          A. Environment and the Humans Within It21. Landscape in Cinema       22. The Tour de France of French Cinema     23. Farrebique, the Paradox of Realism        24. Long Live Farrebique!      25. Louisiana Story    26. A Great Film: Flaherty’s Louisiana Story  27. Crin Blanc (White Mane)   B. Animals in the Lead28. The Science Film: Accidental Beauty       29. Animal Films Reveal the World of Cinema          30. The Great Adventure       31. The Perils of Perri32. In the Sands of Central Asia, an Admirable Documentary          33. Pity for the Animals         34. Toro: A Revolution in Realism      35. Afternoon of the Bulls: Ninety Minutes of Truth36. Death Every Afternoon: La Course de taureaux    C. The Extraordinary Within the Ordinary37. Here’s Proof That the Short Is a Spectacle          38. Sports Reporting in Televised News        39. Winter Olympics: Skiing and Cinema      40. Soviet Documentaries: In the Circus Arena and Whaling in the Antarctic          41. Lourdes et ses miracles    42. A Tele-Lensed Film: Little Fugitive  D. Bringing History Back to Life43. La Bataille du rail (The Battle of the Rails)           44. La Bataille du rail and Ivan the Terrible   45. On Why We Fight: History, Documents, and Newsreels 46. A True Film: Leclerc          47. In Search of Lost Time: Paris 1900           48. Clemenceau by Clemenceau       49. André Gide, Alive and Well!        50. Hôtel des Invalides (dir. Georges Franju)   E. The New French Documentary51. Statues Always Die Twice (dir. Alain Resnais and Chris Marker) 52. Nuit et brouillard (Night and Fog, dir. Alain Resnais)      53. En liberté sur les routes d’URSS and Chris Marker’s Dimanche à Pékin 54. Lettre de Sibérie (dir. Chris Marker)        55. Lettre de Sibérie in a New Style: The “Documented Essay”  F. Documentary at the Edge: Art and Death56. God, the Painter, and the Film on Art      57. Picasso, Clouzot, and Metamorphosis     58. Le Mystère Picasso          59. Death on the Screen            G. Envoi60. Every Film Is a Social Documentary           ADDENDUM: TWO ESSENTIAL ESSAYS TRANSLATED BY HUGH GRAY61. Cinema and Exploration  62. Painting and Cinema          Appendix: Chronological List of Articles        Index of Film Titles     General Index