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"Although Andre Bazin died shortly before the onset of what we now regard as the modern cinema, our understanding of this cinema wouldn't be the same without him. He's also one of the most scrupulous humanists and polemicists we've had, on a par with George Orwell, and these essays map out the busy highways we're all still navigating." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic for the Chicago Reader"

Table of Contents
Foreword to the 2004 Edition
Introduction
The Ontology of the Photographic Image
The Myth of Total Cinema
The Evolution of the Language of Cinema
The Virtues and Limitations of Montage
In Defense of Mixed Cinema
Theater and Cinema
Part One
Part Two
Le Journal d'un cure de campagne and the
Stylistics of Robert Bresson
Charlie Chaplin
Cinema and Exploration
Painting and Cinema
Notes
Index

What Is Cinema Volume I

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    A Paperback / softback by André Bazin, Hugh Gray, Jean Renoir

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 13 December 2004
      ISBN-13 9780520242272
      978-0520242272
      ISBN-10 0520242270
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "Although Andre Bazin died shortly before the onset of what we now regard as the modern cinema, our understanding of this cinema wouldn't be the same without him. He's also one of the most scrupulous humanists and polemicists we've had, on a par with George Orwell, and these essays map out the busy highways we're all still navigating." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic for the Chicago Reader"

      Table of Contents
      Foreword to the 2004 Edition
      Introduction
      The Ontology of the Photographic Image
      The Myth of Total Cinema
      The Evolution of the Language of Cinema
      The Virtues and Limitations of Montage
      In Defense of Mixed Cinema
      Theater and Cinema
      Part One
      Part Two
      Le Journal d'un cure de campagne and the
      Stylistics of Robert Bresson
      Charlie Chaplin
      Cinema and Exploration
      Painting and Cinema
      Notes
      Index

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