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What Is Cinema? Volume I
Andre Bazin
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Description for What Is Cinema? Volume I
Paperback. Translator(s): Gray, Hugh. Num Pages: 207 pages. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 207 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 248. Volume I. 207 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: APFA. Dimension: 207 x 141 x 14. Weight: 248. Translator(s): Gray, Hugh.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
207
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
207
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520242272
SKU
V9780520242272
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About Andre Bazin
Andre 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 ... Read more
Reviews for What Is Cinema? Volume I
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. - ... Read more