What Cinema Is!
Bazin's Quest and its Charge
Published on 13. April 2010
Book
Hardback
184 pages
978-1-4051-0759-4 (ISBN)
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 time
Establishes cinema's distinction from the current enthusiasm over audio-visual entertainment, without relegating cinema to a single, older mode
Examines cinema's institutions and its social force through the qualities of key films
Traces the history of an idea that has made cinema supremely alive to (and in) our times
Written by one of the foremost film scholars of our time
Establishes cinema's distinction from the current enthusiasm over audio-visual entertainment, without relegating cinema to a single, older mode
Examines cinema's institutions and its social force through the qualities of key films
Traces the history of an idea that has made cinema supremely alive to (and in) our times
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Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-0759-4 (9781405107594)
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Person
Dudley Andrew is the R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale University. The author of many books, including Mists of Regret (1995) and Popular Front Paris (2005), he is an Officier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Prologue: The Target of Film Theory xiii
1 The Camera Searching in the World 1
Is a Camera Essential? 1
The Cahiers Axiom 4
Tracing Bazin's Trace 11
Images Contested Today 17
2 The Editor's Discovery of Form 29
Bazin's Forerunners 31
Documentaries in the Cauldron of History 37
The Cahiers Line 42
Pursuing Cinema in the Twenty-First Century 48
3 The Projector as Spectator's Searchlight 66
The Power of Projection 69
Opening the Screen's Dimensions 74
Frame as Threshold 79
Writing out of the Frame 90
4 The Evolution of the Subjects of Cinema 98
Modern Film: Between Classic and Avant-Garde 99
The Ontogeny of Cinema 110
Credits and Auteurs: An Ecology of Adaptation 123
Fidelity: The Economy of Adaptation 129
Index 147
Prologue: The Target of Film Theory xiii
1 The Camera Searching in the World 1
Is a Camera Essential? 1
The Cahiers Axiom 4
Tracing Bazin's Trace 11
Images Contested Today 17
2 The Editor's Discovery of Form 29
Bazin's Forerunners 31
Documentaries in the Cauldron of History 37
The Cahiers Line 42
Pursuing Cinema in the Twenty-First Century 48
3 The Projector as Spectator's Searchlight 66
The Power of Projection 69
Opening the Screen's Dimensions 74
Frame as Threshold 79
Writing out of the Frame 90
4 The Evolution of the Subjects of Cinema 98
Modern Film: Between Classic and Avant-Garde 99
The Ontogeny of Cinema 110
Credits and Auteurs: An Ecology of Adaptation 123
Fidelity: The Economy of Adaptation 129
Index 147