Bazin's quest and its charge Andrew, James Dudley 1945- creator text bibliography enk Chichester, West Sussex, U.K Malden, MA Wiley-Blackwell 2010 monographic eng

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xxvii, 152 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. 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. 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. Dudley Andrew. Includes bibliographical references and index. Motion pictures Philosophy Cine Filosofía Filosofía del cine PN 1995 A562w 2010 793.01 9781405107600 (hardcover : alk. paper) 140510760X (hardcover : alk. paper) 2010004702 DLC 100208 20240207145318.0 121336 eng