Andre Bazin / Dudley Andrew.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andrew, Dudley, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bazin, André, 1918-1958.

Bazin, André.

Film critics--France--Biography.

Film critics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Andre Bazin, often dubbed the father of the French New Wave, has had an immense impact on film art. He is credited with almost single-handedly establishing the study of film as an accepted intellectual pursuit. The journal that he founded in 1951, Cahiers du Cinema, remains the most influential archive of cinema criticism. He remains one of the most read, most studied, and most engaging figures ever to have written about film. The last few years have witnessed a massive resurgence of interest in Bazin among critics, scholars, and students of every persuasion. His writings, a mainstay of film t

Contents:

Foreword / by Francois Truffaut

Introduction

The formative years

The war years

Birth of a critic

The liberation and the animation of a culture

The politics and aesthetics of film

Cahiers du cinema and the extension of a theory

The end of a career

Appendix: Andre Bazin from 1945 to 1950: the time of struggles and consecration / by Jean-Charles Tacchella.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-997051-3

1-299-16050-6

0-19-993824-5

OCLC:

827944753