TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andrew,James Dudley
TI  - What cinema is!: Bazin's quest and its charge 
T2  - Blackwell manifestos
SN  - 9781405107600 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - PN 1995 A562w 2010
U1  - 793.01 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., Malden, MA
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Cine
KW  - Filosofía
KW  - Filosofía del cine
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -