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What Is Cinema? Volume 2

By Andre Bazin

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2004
ISBN
0520242289, 9780520242289
LCC
PN1994 .B3513 2004
Open Library ID
OL3305871M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
27 MB (28179674 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
226\226
Topic
Art Cinema
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Искусство и искусствоведение;Искусство кинематогра

Description

Andr? 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 Cin?ma, 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 prot?g? of Fran?ois Truffaut, who honors him touchingly in his forword 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."

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