André Bazin's film theory : art, science, religion / Angela Dalle Vacche.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dalle Vacche, Angela, 1954- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Bazin, André, 1918-1958--Criticism and interpretation.

Bazin, André.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Through metaphors and allusions to art, science, and religion, André Bazin's writings on the cinema explore a simple yet profound question: what is a human? For the famous French film critic, a human is simultaneously a rational animal and an irrational being. Bazin's idea of the cinema is a mind-machine where the ethical implications have priority over aesthetic issues. And in its ability to function as an art form for the masses, cinema is the only medium that can address an audience at the individual and community levels simultaneously - the audience sees the same film, but each individual relates to the narrative in a different way. By arguing that this dissident Catholic's worldview is anti-anthropocentric, Angela Dalle Vacche concludes that André Bazin's idea of the cinema recapitulates the histories of biological evolution and modern technology inside our consciousness.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 4, 2020).

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-006733-0

0-19-006731-4