What Cinema Is! : Bazin's Quest and its Charge, Paperback / softback Book

What Cinema Is! : Bazin's Quest and its Charge Paperback / softback

Part of the Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos series

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What Cinema Is! offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazin's famous question, exploring his 'idea of cinema' with a sweeping look back at the near century of Cinema's phenomenal ascendancy. Written by one of the foremost film scholars of our timeEstablishes cinema's distinction from the current enthusiasm over audio-visual entertainment, without relegating cinema to a single, older modeExamines cinema's institutions and its social force through the qualities of key filmsTraces the history of an idea that has made cinema supremely alive to (and in) our times

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