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

Author: Bazin, André, 1918-1958.

Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, [1967-71]

Description2 v. ; 23 cm.

Note:Translation of selections from Qu'est-ce que le cinéma?

Note: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

Note: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

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.

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