Opening Bazin
By: edited by Dudley Andrew ; with Hervé Joubert-Laurencin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780199733880; 9780199733897
Description: Andre Bazin remains one of the most read, most studied, and most engaging figures ever to have written about film. This volume includes essays from the best scholars of French cinema in the US and abroad.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lineage. A Bazinian half-century / Thomas Elsaesser; title: Cinema Across Fault Lines: Bazin and the French School of Geography / Ludovic Cortade; title: Evolution and Event in Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? / Tom Conley; title: The Reality of Hallucination in André Bazin / Jean-François Chevrier; title: Beyond the Image in Benjamin and Bazin: the Aura of the Event / Monica Dall'Asta; title: Bazin as modernist / Colin MacCage; title: Film and plaster: the mould of history / Jean-Michel Frodon; title: From Bazin to Deleuze: a matter of depth / Diane Arnoud; title: Deconstruction avant la lettre: Jacques Derrida before André Bazin / Louis-Georges Schwartz; title: Aesthetics. Belief in bazin / Philip Rosen; title: The world in its own image: the myth of total cinema / Tom Gunning; title: The afterlife of superimposition / Daniel Morgan; title: The difference of cinema in the system of the arts / Angel Dalle Vacche; title: Malraux, Bazin, and the gesture of Picasso / Dudley Andrew; title: Incoherent spasms and the dignity of signs: Bazin's Bresson / Noa Steimatsky; title: Animals: an adventure in Bazin's ontology / Seung-hoon Jeong; title: Bazin's exquisite corpses / Ivone Margulies; title: Re-writing the image: two effects of the future-perfect in André Bazin / Hervé Joubert-Laurencin; title: Historical moment. The eloquent image: the postwar mission of film and of criticism / Philip Watts; title: Bazin in combat / Antoine de Baecque; title: Bazin the censor? / Marc Vernet; title: Waves of crisis in French cinema / Jeremi Szaniawski; title: Bazin's Chaplin myth and the corrosive lettrists / Rochelle Fack; title: Radical ambitions in postwar French documentary / Steven Ungar; title: Bazin on the margins of the 7th art / Grant Wiedenfeld; title: Television and the auteur in the late fifties / Michael Cramer; title: André Bazin's bad taste / James Tweedie; title: Worldwide influence. Montage under suspicion: Bazin's Russo-Soviet reception / John MacKay; title: Fom ripples to waves: Bazin in Eastern Europe / Alice Lovejoy; title: Bazin in Brazil: a welcome visitor / Ismail Xavier; title: Bazin and the politics of realism in mainland China / Cecile Lagesse; title: Japanese readings: the textual thread / Kan Nozaki; title: Jpanese lessons: Bazin's cinematic cosmopolitanism / Ryan Cook.