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100 1 _aBazin, Andre,
_d1918-1958
_913735
245 1 0 _aWhat is cinema? /
_cby Andre Bazin ; foreword by Francois Truffaut ; new foreword by Dudley Andrew ; essays selected and translated by Hugh Gray
260 _aBerkeley :
_bUniversity of California Press,
_cc2005.
300 _axxvi, 200 p. :
_bvol. II ;
_c21 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aVolume 1 -- Foreword -- 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 -- Le journal d'un curé de campagne and the stylistics of Robert Bresson -- Charlie Chaplin -- Cinema and exploration -- Painting and cinema. Volume 2 -- Foreword to the 2004 edition / François Truffaut -- Introduction -- An aesthetic of reality : cinematic realism and the Italian school of the liberation -- La terra trema -- Bicycle thief -- De sica : metteur en scène -- Umberto D. : a great work -- Cabiria : the voyage to the end of neorealism -- In defense of Rossellini -- The myth of Monsieur Verdoux -- Limelight, or the death of Molière -- The grandeur of Limelight -- The Western, or the American film par excellence -- The evolution of the Western -- Entomology of the pin-up girl -- The outlaw -- Marginal on Eroticism in the cinema -- The destiny of Jean Gabin.
520 _a"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 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.'"--Publisher's description.
650 0 _aMotion pictures
_95347
650 0 _aPerforming arts
_913736
700 1 _aAndrew, Dudley,
_d1945-
_eForwarded by
_917511
700 1 _aGray, Hugh,
_d1900-1981,
_eEssays selected and translated by
_917512
700 1 _aTruffaut, François,
_eForwarded by
_917513
942 _cREGULAR