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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
Paperback. 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: 180 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 242.
What Cinema Is! offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazin's famous question, exploring his 'idea of cinema' with a sweeping look back at the near century of Cinema's phenomenal ascendancy.
What Cinema Is! offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazin's famous question, exploring his 'idea of cinema' with a sweeping look 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 enthusiasm over audio-visual entertainment, without relegating cinema to a single, older mode
- Examines cinema's institutions and its social force through the qualities of key films
- Traces the history of an idea that has made cinema supremely alive to (and in) our times
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
180
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
Condition
New
Weight
242g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405107600
SKU
V9781405107600
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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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