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Bazin, André, 1918-1958.

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

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

2 volumes ; 23 cm

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures.

Gray, Hugh, 1900-1981.

Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? Selections. English

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

Includes bibliographical references.

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

V.1: Foreword / by Jean Renoir -- Introduction -- 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 -- v. 2: Foreword / by François Truffaut -- Translator's introduction -- 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.

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