Andre Bazin

Selected Writings 1943-1958
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-927852-05-7
Verlag: Caboose

Buch, Englisch, 503 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 381 g

Following its acclaimed edition of selections from André Bazin's What is Cinema?, caboose is pleased to present a greatly expanded collection of articles by France's foremost film critic and theorist. André Bazin: Selected Writings 1943-1958 doubles the number of articles found in the earlier volume to twenty-six, making this the most comprehensive collection in English of a broad range of Bazin's writings throughout his entire career, with extensive annotations and corrections.

The texts included here are all offered in their original version, as they were written, published and discussed in Bazin's day in post-war France—before Bazin and in some cases his posthumous editors revised and abridged them for republication. In most cases this is the first time these articles have been republished in their original form in any language, including French. Readers will discover the essay “Découpage,” the basis of Bazin's most famous text and the most widely-read article in cinema studies, “The Evolution of Film Language.” 

The volume includes brilliant essays on major filmmakers of the classical film period, including Renoir, Welles, Chaplin, Bresson, Malraux and Wyler; essays on film and the other arts; the famous essay on Italian neo-realism; essays on documentary and science film; comedy; film language; film history; and the 'politique des auteurs' and the role of the critic. The volume's new translations of these texts re-assert Bazin's status as the pre-eminent film critic and theorist of all time. Each essay is extensively annotated by Timothy Barnard, situating the man and his work in the cultural and social climate of post-war France.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bazin, Andre

Weitere Mitwirkende

Barnard, Timothy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- This Is Not a Theorist: Notes on André
- Bazin -- Jacques Aumont
- A Note on the Texts -- Timothy Barnard
- For a Realist Aesthetic
- 1944 
- On Realism
- 1945 
- Ontology of the Photographic Image
- Espoir: On Style in the Cinema
- 1946 
- The Myth of Total Cinema and the Origins of the Cinématographe
- 1947 
- The Technique of Citizen Kane
- The Science Film: Chance Beauty
- 1948 
- Cinematic Realism and the Italian School of the Liberation
- William Wyler, the Jansenist of Mise en scène
- Orson Welles&rsquo
- Contribution
- Landru—Charlie—Monsieur Verdoux
- 1949 
- Cinema and Painting
- 1951 Depth of Field, Once and for All
- Diary of a Country Priest and Robert Bresson’s Stylistic System
- Theatre and Film (1)
- Theatre and Film (2)
- Death Every Afternoon
- 1952 
- French Renoir Découpage For an Impure Cinema: In Defence of Adaptation
- 1953 
- The Real and the Imaginary No Script for Monsieur Hulot
- 1956 
- A Bergsonian Film: The Picasso Mystery Assembly Prohibited
- 1957 
- On the ‘Politique des auteurs
- 1958 
- Thoughts on Film Criticism
- Glossary of Terms
- 1. General Terms
- 2. Découpage
- 3. Montage
- 4. Fait
- Acknowledgements
- Name index
- Title index

Über Autor(innen)

André Bazin (1918–1958) is one of the most influential critics ever to have written about cinema. He contributed daily reviews to Paris’s largest-circulation newspaper, Le Parisien libéré, and wrote hundreds of essays for weeklies (Le nouvel observateur, Télérama) and such esteemed monthly journals as Esprit and Cahiers du cinéma (which he cofounded). A social activist, he directed cine-clubs and, from 1945 to 1950, worked for the Communist outreach organization Travail et Culture. 

Timothy Barnard is a professional translator with a prominent background in film history and theory. He is the publisher of caboose books in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.