Andrew, James Dudley,   1945-  <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781405107600 (hardcover : alk. paper) 140510760X (hardcover : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010004702 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA9B3667  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>015427157  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Motion pictures--Philosophy.<br/>Cine--Filosofía<br/>Filosofía del cine 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 1995  / A562w 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>793.01