What Is Cinema? Volume II

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By André Bazin

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What Is Cinema? Volume II continues the exploration of film theory and criticism by André Bazin, a seminal figure in French cinema and film studies. This volume features thought-provoking essays that blend intellectual rigour with accessibility, guided by Bazin's humanistic perspective. With forewords from François Truffaut and Dudley Andrew, the collection re-examines Bazin's enduring influence on understanding cinema's art and history.
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This book will engage serious students and scholars of film studies, cinephiles interested in the theoretical foundations of cinema, and readers seeking a deeper understanding of film as an art form and cultural phenomenon.

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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 protégés 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, praised Bazin as one of the most scrupulous humanists and polemicists, comparing him favourably to George Orwell. Rosenbaum noted that Bazin's essays map the complex terrain of modern cinema and remain essential to its study despite Bazin's passing before contemporary cinema's rise.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520242289

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 December 2004

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Contributors:

Translated by Hugh Gray
Foreword by Dudley Andrew
Foreword by Francois Truffaut

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 272g

Pages: 226

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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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