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What Cinema Is!: Bazin's Quest and Its Charge (Blackwell Manifestos)

By Dudley Andrew

Book information

Publisher
Blackwell Publ
Year
2010
ISBN
1405107596, 9781405107594
LCC
PN1995 .A525 2010
Open Library ID
OL24068959M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6403468 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
175\175
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

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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