What is cinema? / Essays selected and translated by Hugh Gray.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bazin, André, 1918-1958
Other Authors: Gray, Hugh, 1900-1981
Format: eBook
Language:English
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Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1967-71]
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Uniform Title:Qu'est-ce que le cinéma?
Table of Contents:
  • V.1: Foreword / by Jean Renoir
  • 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
  • Le Journal d'un curé de campagne and the stylistics of Robert Bresson
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Cinema and exploration
  • Painting and cinema
  • v. 2: Foreword / by François Truffaut
  • Translator's introduction
  • An aesthetic of reality: cinematic realism and the Italian school of the liberation
  • La terra trema
  • Bicycle thief
  • De sica: Metteur en scène
  • Umberto D: a great work
  • Cabiria: the voyage to the end of neorealism
  • In defense of Rossellini
  • The myth of Monsieur Verdoux
  • Limelight, or the death of Molière
  • The grandeur of Limelight
  • The western, or the American film par excellence
  • The evolution of the western
  • Entomology of the pin-up girl
  • The Outlaw
  • Marginal notes on Eroticism in the Cinema
  • The destiny of Jean Gabin.