What Is Cinema? Volume I

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By André Bazin

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What Is Cinema? Volume I is a seminal work in film studies by André Bazin, one of the most influential figures in French cinema since World War II. Bazin, coeditor of the renowned Cahiers du Cinema, presents a collection of erudite and accessible essays that explore the essence and philosophy of cinema. Featuring forewords by Jean Renoir and Bazin scholar Dudley Andrew, this volume remains a cornerstone of film criticism and theory.
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This book is ideal for students, scholars, and enthusiasts of film theory, criticism, and history, especially those interested in French cinema and the intellectual foundations of film studies.

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These two volumes 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 became coeditor of the influential Cahiers du Cinema, which under his leadership became one of the world's most distinguished publications.

His proteges included Jean Renoir, who contributed a short foreword to Volume I, and Francois Truffaut, who provides the same for 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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Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic for the Chicago Reader, lauds Bazin as a scrupulous humanist and polemicist comparable to George Orwell. He praises the essays for shaping our understanding of modern cinema and describes them as essential reading for navigating the complexities of film today.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520242272

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 December 2004

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Edition: 2nd edition

Contributors:

Translated by Hugh Gray
Foreword by Jean Renoir
Foreword by Dudley Andrew

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 272g

Pages: 208

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About the Author

Andre Bazin (1918--1958) was one of France's best-known and respected film critics, and mentor to such directors as Truffaut and Godard. Hugh Gray (translator, 1900--1981) was Professor of Film, Theater, Aesthetics, and Humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Loyola Marymount University. Dudley Andrew is Professor of Film Studies and of Comparative Literature at Yale University. He is the author of Andre Bazin (1990) and Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film (1995).

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