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Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos Ser.: What Cinema Is! : Bazin's Quest and Its Charge by Dudley Andrew (2010, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
ISBN-10140510760X
ISBN-139781405107600
eBay Product ID (ePID)11038483512
Product Key Features
Number of Pages192 Pages
Publication NameWhat Cinema Is! : Bazin's Quest and Its Charge
LanguageEnglish
SubjectFilm / History & Criticism
Publication Year2010
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPerforming Arts
AuthorDudley Andrew
SeriesWiley-Blackwell Manifestos Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight8.6 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2010-004702
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"With this elegant volume, Dudley Andrew brilliantly continues his extended project of producing a historiography of film theory and of French cinema. He has given us a book worthy of André Bazin's intelligence, originality, curiosity, and spirit." Eric Smoodin, University of California at Davis "A new slant on Bazin with fresh disclosures for our era of digital media is always welcome, especially from Dudley Andrew, Bazin's foremost expositor. Andrew's graceful and analytic prose is peppered with timely provocations of his own, starting with the Preface. Made manifest throughout is the continuing relevance of Bazin's devotion to cinema and compassion for humanity." Edward Branigan, University of California at Santa Barbara
Series Volume Number39
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal791.43
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments 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
SynopsisWhat Cinema Is! offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazins famous question, exploring his idea of cinema with a sweeping look back at the near century of Cinemas phenomenal ascendancy., 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, What Cinema Is! offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazin s famous question through a sweeping look back over the phenomenal ascendancy of a certain idea of cinema. Written by one of the foremost film scholars of our time, this provocative volume proclaims cinema s distinct value not just for the last century but for our current audio-visual culture. Whatever cinema may yet become, this unique idea should orient and guide it. Examining cinema s institutions and its social force but always through the qualities of key films What Cinema Is! testifies to the power of something that didn t even exist before 1895. From the art films cherished by cinephiles after World War II through the banner years of the New Wave to a technologically expanded cinema, Andrew traces the long nerve of this idea that has made cinema supremely alive to (and in) our times., 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
LC Classification NumberPN1995
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