What is cinema?. Volume 1 / by André Bazin ; foreword by Jean Renoir ; 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.

Renoir, Jean, 1894-1979.

Standardized Title:

Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

2nd 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:

Foreword

Contents

Foreword to the 2004 Edition

Introduction

The Ontology of the Photographic Image

The Myth of Total Cinema

The Evolution of the Language of Cinema

The Virtues and Limitations of Montage

In Defense of Mixed Cinema

Theater and Cinema Part One

Theater and Cinema Part Two

Le Journal d'un curé de campagne and the Stylistics of Robert Bresson

Charlie Chaplin

Cinema and Exploration

Painting and 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:

9780520931251

0520931254

OCLC:

1110719588