What cinema is! : Bazin's quest and its charge /
Andrew, James Dudley, 1945-
What cinema is! : Bazin's quest and its charge / Dudley Andrew. - Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. - xxvii, 152 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Blackwell manifestos .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: the target of film theory -- The camera searching in the world -- Is a camera essential? -- The Cahiers axiom -- Tracing Bazin's trace -- Images contested today -- The editor's discovery of form -- Bazin's forerunners -- Documentaries in the cauldron of history -- The Cahiers line -- Pursuing cinema in the twenty-first century -- The projector as spectator's searchlight -- The power of projection -- Opening the screen's dimensions -- Frame as threshold -- Writing out of the frame -- The evolution of the subjects of cinema -- Modern film: between classic and avant-garde -- The ontogeny of cinema -- Credits and auteurs: an ecology of adaptation -- Fidelity: the economy of adaptation.
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.
9781405107600 (hardcover : alk. paper) 140510760X (hardcover : alk. paper)
2010004702
GBA9B3667 bnb
015427157 Uk
Motion pictures--Philosophy.
Cine--Filosofía
Filosofía del cine
PN 1995 / A562w 2010
793.01
What cinema is! : Bazin's quest and its charge / Dudley Andrew. - Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. - xxvii, 152 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Blackwell manifestos .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: the target of film theory -- The camera searching in the world -- Is a camera essential? -- The Cahiers axiom -- Tracing Bazin's trace -- Images contested today -- The editor's discovery of form -- Bazin's forerunners -- Documentaries in the cauldron of history -- The Cahiers line -- Pursuing cinema in the twenty-first century -- The projector as spectator's searchlight -- The power of projection -- Opening the screen's dimensions -- Frame as threshold -- Writing out of the frame -- The evolution of the subjects of cinema -- Modern film: between classic and avant-garde -- The ontogeny of cinema -- Credits and auteurs: an ecology of adaptation -- Fidelity: the economy of adaptation.
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.
9781405107600 (hardcover : alk. paper) 140510760X (hardcover : alk. paper)
2010004702
GBA9B3667 bnb
015427157 Uk
Motion pictures--Philosophy.
Cine--Filosofía
Filosofía del cine
PN 1995 / A562w 2010
793.01