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What is Cinema?: v. 2 Book

Andre 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 Cinema, 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 protege of Francois 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."Read More

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    What Is Cinema? Volume II : Paperback : University of California Press : 9780520242289 : 0520242289 : 13 Dec 2004 : "Although Andre Bazin died shortly before the onset of what we now regard as the modern cinema, our understanding of this cinema wouldn't be the same without him. He's also one of the most scrupulous humanists and polemicists we've had, on a par with George Orwell, and these essays map out the busy highways we're all still navigating.""--Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic for the ""Chicago Reader "" """"What Is Cinema?"" remains an invaluable--and beautiful--landmark in film and media studies. In both my research and my classrooms I return to these essays again and again--not only for the richness of their arguments but also for their passionate belief that the cinema is a form of revelation vital to our lives.""--Vivian Sobchack, Professor, Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media, University of California, Los Angeles"

  • Blackwell

    These two volumes 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. New foreword by Dudley Andrew. Andre Bazin's What Is Cinema? (volumes I and II) have...

  • Pickabook

    Andre Bazin, Hugh Gray (Trans), Francois Truffaut (Foreword)

  • 0520242289
  • 9780520242289
  • A Bazin
  • 3 December 2004
  • University of California Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 226
  • Revised edition
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