What Cinema Is! : Bazin's Quest and its Charge, Hardback Book

What Cinema Is! : Bazin's Quest and its Charge Hardback

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What Cinema Is! offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazin'sfamous question, exploring his 'idea of cinema' with a sweepinglook back at the near century of Cinema's phenomenal ascendancy. * Written by one of the foremost film scholars of our time * Establishes cinema's distinction from the current enthusiasmover audio-visual entertainment, without relegating cinema to asingle, older mode * Examines cinema's institutions and its social force through thequalities of key films * Traces the history of an idea that has made cinema supremelyalive to (and in) our times

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  • Pages:184 pages
  • Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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  • ISBN:9781405107594

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  • Format:Hardback
  • Pages:184 pages
  • Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publication Date:
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  • ISBN:9781405107594