What is cinema?. Volume 2 / by André Bazin ; foreword by François Truffaut ; new foreword by Dudley Andrew ; essays selected and translated by Hugh Gray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bazin, André, 1918-1958.

Contributor:

Andrew, Dudley, 1945-

Gray, Hugh, 1900-1981.

Truffaut, François.

Standardized Title:

Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

André 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 Cinéma, 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 protégé of François Truffaut, who honors him touchingly in his foreword 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."

Contents:

Front matter

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

AN AESTHETIC OF REALITY: NEOREALISM

LA TERRA TREMA

BICYCLE THIEF

DE SICA: METTEUR EN SCENE

UMBERTO D: A GREAT WORK

CABIRIA: THE VOYAGE TO THE END OF NEOREALISM

IN DEFENSE OF ROSSELLINI

THE MYTH OF MONSIEUR VERDOUX

LIMELIGHT, OR THE DEATH OF MOLIERE

THE GRANDEUR OF LIMELIGHT

THE WESTERN: OR THE AMERICAN FILM PAR EXCELLENCE

THE EVOLUTION OF THE WESTERN

ENTOMOLOGY OF THE PIN-UP GIRL

THE OUTLAW

MARGINAL NOTES ON EROTICISM IN THE CINEMA

SOURCES AND TRANSLATOR'S NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 29, 2013).

ISBN:

9780520931268

0520931262

9781306073608

130607360X

OCLC:

1110707736