Bazin at Work: Major Essays and Reviews from the Forties and Fifties - Softcover

Bazin, Andre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415900182 ISBN 13: 9780415900188

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

Film theorist, critic, founder of the influential journal Cahiers du Cinema , and spiritual father of the French New Wave, Andre Bazin almost single-handedly established the study of film as an accepted intellectual pursuit. Although his career was brief, his impact on film is widely considered greater than that of any single director, actor, or producer. This collection of Bazin's fugitive writings is the first volume of his work to appear in English in twenty-five years. Bazin at Work includes previously untranslated selections from the four volumes of Qu'est-ce que le cinema? and from such magazines as Cahiers du cinema and Esprit . Bazin addresses such significant subjects as film adaptation, CinemaScope, and religious cinema, such prominent filmmakers as Rossellini, Eisentein, Pagnol, and Capra, and well-known films including La Strada, Citizen Kane, Scarface, and The Bridge on the River Kwai.

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Review:

"Bazin writes a clear, unadorned prose and has such a wide-ranging, passionate knowledge of American films that anyone can read him with pleasure and understanding."
-" What's Up, June 1998
..."are fresh, stimulating, and even provocative (or combative) when read in relationship to the present matrix fo film theory and criticism... Thus, "Bazin at Work is essential for all collections."
Performing Arts - Film
-Choice, April 1998 Vol. 35 No. 8
..."particularly brilliant insight...one of the most brilliant and valuable books on film published this year, of interest to anyone passionate about cinema."
-"Publishers Weekly

From the Back Cover:

This collection of Bazin's fugitive writings is the first volume of his work to appear in English in twenty-five years. Bazin at Work includes previously untranslated selections from the four volumes of Qu'est-ce que le cinema? and from such magazines as Cahiers du cinema and Esprit. Bazin addresses such significant subjects as films including La Strada, Citizen Kane, Scarface, and The Bridge on the River Kwai.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0415900182
• ISBN 13: 9780415900188
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272