What Cinema Is!
Bazin's Quest and its Charge
Format:Paperback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Published:13th Apr '10
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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 (and in) our times
ISBN: 9781405107600
Dimensions: 217mm x 140mm x 15mm
Weight: 245g
192 pages