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What Cinema Is!: Bazin's Quest and its Charge
Dudley Andrew
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Description for What Cinema Is!: Bazin's Quest and its Charge
Hardcover. What Cinema Is! offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazin'sfamous question, exploring his 'idea of cinema' with a sweepinglook back at the near century of Cinema's phenomenal ascendancy. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 184 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 362.
What Cinema Is! offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazin'sfamous question, exploring his 'idea of cinema' with a sweepinglook back at the near century of Cinema's phenomenal ascendancy. * Written by one of the foremost film scholars of our time * Establishes cinema's distinction from the current enthusiasmover audio-visual entertainment, without relegating cinema to asingle, older mode * Examines cinema's institutions and its social force through thequalities of key films * Traces the history of an idea that has made cinema supremelyalive to (and in) our times
What Cinema Is! offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazin'sfamous question, exploring his 'idea of cinema' with a sweepinglook back at the near century of Cinema's phenomenal ascendancy. * Written by one of the foremost film scholars of our time * Establishes cinema's distinction from the current enthusiasmover audio-visual entertainment, without relegating cinema to asingle, older mode * Examines cinema's institutions and its social force through thequalities of key films * Traces the history of an idea that has made cinema supremelyalive to (and in) our times
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Series
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Chicester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405107594
SKU
V9781405107594
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About Dudley Andrew
Dudley Andrew is the R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale University. The author of many books, including Mists of Regret (1995) and Popular Front Paris (2005), he is an Officier de l ordre des arts et des lettres and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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