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What Cinema Is!

By Dudley Andrew

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2010
ISBN
140510760X, 9781405107600
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3684141 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
180\182
Time added
2013-12-04 11:05:02

Description

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 timeEstablishes cinema's distinction from the current enthusiasm over audio-visual entertainment, without relegating cinema to a single, older modeExamines cinema's institutions and its social force through the qualities of key filmsTraces the history of an idea that has made cinema supremely alive to (and in) our times

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