What is cinema? . Volume 1 / / by André Bazin ; foreword by Jean Renoir ; new foreword by Dudley Andrew ; essays selected and translated by Hugh Gray

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910809778903321
• Autore: Bazin André <1918-1958.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2005]; ©2005
• ISBN: 0-520-93125-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): AndrewDudley <1945->; GrayHugh <1900-1981.>; RenoirJean <1894-1979.>
• Disciplina: 791.43
• Soggetti: Motion pictures; Performing arts
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword -- Contents -- Foreword to the 2004 Edition -- Introduction -- The Ontology of the Photographic Image -- The Myth of Total Cinema -- The Evolution of the Language of Cinema -- The Virtues and Limitations of Montage -- In Defense of Mixed Cinema -- Theater and Cinema Part One -- Theater and Cinema Part Two -- Le Journal d'un curé de campagne and the Stylistics of Robert Bresson -- Charlie Chaplin -- Cinema and Exploration -- Painting and Cinema -- Sources and Translator's Notes -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 foreword 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."