What Is Cinema? Volume I

André Bazin

Published by University of California Press 2004

What Is Cinema? Volume I

Volume I

André Bazin

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520931251

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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 forword 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."

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BazinAndré:

André Bazin (1918–1958) was one of France's best-known and respected film critics, and mentor to such directors as Truffaut and Godard. Hugh Gray (translator, 1900–1981) was Professor of Film, Theater, Aesthetics, and Humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Loyola Marymount University. Dudley Andrew is Professor of Film Studies and of Comparative Literature at Yale University. He is the author of André Bazin (1990) and Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film (1995).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
FOREWORD Publicly Available Download PDF	v
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
FOREWORD TO THE 2004 EDITION Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
THE ONTOLOGY OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
THE MYTH OF TOTAL CINEMA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
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THEATER AND CINEMA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
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