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 ofCinema's phenomenal ascendancy. Written by one of the foremost film scholars of our time, this provocative volume establishes cinemas distinction from the current enthusiasm over audio-visual entertainment, without relegating cinema to a single, older mode. Examining cinema's institutions and its social forcebut always through the qualities of key filmsWhat Cinema Is! testifies to the power of something that didn't even exist before 1895. From the artfilms cherished by cinephiles after WWII and that reached a zenith in the euphoria of the new wave, to a technologically 'expanded cinema' practiced by hybrid cineastesof late, Andrew traces the long nerve of an idea that has made cinema supremely alive to (and in) our times.Dudley Andrew is the R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale University. He is the author of many books, including Mists of Regret (1995) and Popular Front Paris (2005). He is an Officier de lordre des arts et des lettres and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-0759-4
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 168
- Fecha Publicación: 09/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés