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What Cinema Is!

Bazin's Quest and its Charge

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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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 timeEstablishes cinema's distinction from the current enthusiasm over audio-visual entertainment, without relegating cinema to a single, older modeExamines cinema's institutions and its social force through the qualities of key filmsTraces the history of an idea that has made cinema supremely alive to (and in) our times

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Utgivningsdatum2010-04-13
Mått140 x 217 x 15 mm
Vikt245 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieWiley-Blackwell Manifestos
Antal sidor192
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9781405107600

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Acknowledgments ixPrologue: The Target of Film Theory xiii1 The Camera Searching in the World 1Is a Camera Essential? 1The Cahiers Axiom 4Tracing Bazin’s Trace 11Images Contested Today 172 The Editor’s Discovery of Form 29Bazin’s Forerunners 31Documentaries in the Cauldron of History 37The Cahiers Line 42Pursuing Cinema in the Twenty-First Century 483 The Projector as Spectator’s Searchlight 66The Power of Projection 69Opening the Screen’s Dimensions 74Frame as Threshold 79Writing out of the Frame 904 The Evolution of the Subjects of Cinema 98Modern Film: Between Classic and Avant-Garde 99The Ontogeny of Cinema 110Credits and Auteurs: An Ecology of Adaptation 123Fidelity: The Economy of Adaptation 129Index 147