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What Cinema Is!: Bazin's Quest and Its Charge

3.6/5 ( ratings)

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 time Establishes cinema's distinction from the current enthusiasm over audio-visual entertainment, without relegating cinema to a single, older mode Examines cinema's institutions and its social force through the qualities of key films Traces the history of an idea that has made cinema supremely alive to our times

Language: English

Pages: 184

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Release: April 26, 2010

ISBN: 1405107596

ISBN 13: 9781405107594

What Cinema Is!: Bazin's Quest and Its Charge

3.6/5 ( ratings)

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 time Establishes cinema's distinction from the current enthusiasm over audio-visual entertainment, without relegating cinema to a single, older mode Examines cinema's institutions and its social force through the qualities of key films Traces the history of an idea that has made cinema supremely alive to our times

Language: English

Pages: 184

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Release: April 26, 2010

ISBN: 1405107596

ISBN 13: 9781405107594

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