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What Cinema Is! offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazin'sfamous question, exploring his 'idea of cinema' with a sweepinglook back at the near century of Cinema's phenomenal ascendancy.

Table of Contents

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

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 13/04/2010
      ISBN13: 9781405107600, 978-1405107600
      ISBN10: 140510760X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      What Cinema Is! offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazin'sfamous question, exploring his 'idea of cinema' with a sweepinglook back at the near century of Cinema's phenomenal ascendancy.

      Table of Contents

      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

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