  cahiers du cinÃ©ma (, notebooks on cinema) is a french film magazine founded in 1951 by andrÃ© bazin, jacques doniol-valcroze and joseph-marie lo duca.macnab, geoffrey (7 april 2001) pretentious, nous? the guardian it developed from the earlier magazine revue du cinÃ©ma (review of the cinema) involving members of two paris film clubsâobjectif 49 (objective 49) (robert bresson, jean cocteau and alexandre astruc, among others) and cinÃ©-club du quartier latin (cinema club of the latin quarter). initially edited by doniol-valcroze and, after 1957, by Ãric rohmer (maurice scherer), it included amongst its writers jacques rivette, jean-luc godard, claude chabrol and franÃ§ois truffaut. ==history== cahiers re-invented the basic tenets of film criticism and theory. a 1954 article by truffaut attacked la qualitÃ© franÃ§aise ("the french quality") (usually translated as "the tradition of quality") and was the manifesto for 'la politique des auteurs' which andrew sarris later termed the auteur theory &mdash; resulting in the re-evaluation of hollywood films and directors such as alfred hitchcock, howard hawks, robert aldrich, nicholas ray, and fritz lang. cahiers du cinema authors also championed the work of directors jean renoir, roberto rossellini, kenji mizoguchi, max ophÃ¼ls, and jean cocteau, by centering their critical evaluations on a film's mise en scÃ¨ne. in turn, auteurs were compared and contrasted, and a true film dialogue was established. the magazine also was essential to the creation of the nouvelle vague, or new wave, of french cinema, which centered on films directed by cahiers authors such as godard and truffaut. movement by movement, style by style, the cahiers sought to advance and analyze the growth of world cinema. jacques rivette replaced rohmer as editor in 1963, shifted political and social concerns and paid more attention to the non-hollywood cinema. the style moved through literary modernism in the early 1960s to radicalism and dialectical materialism by 1970. moreover, during the mid-1970s the magazine was run by 
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