Opening Bazin

Zusatztext Elegantly moving across disciplines, history, theory and geography, the essays in Opening Bazin construct an invaluable and vivid picture of Bazin as film theorist, film critic and engaged intellectual. It seems throughout to amount to more than the study of one man. However its richness and diversity is derived from those qualities in Bazin himself, so just as the book transcends its subject, he himself returns not only as its generative figure but also as an emblem of the peculiar and elusive nature of the cinema itself. Informationen zum Autor Dudley Andrew: an Officier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres (French Ministry of Culture and Communication) and inductee into the America Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published The Major Film Theories, Concepts of Film Theory, and Andre Bazin, all with OUP as well as books on major filmmakers and 30s French culture (with Princeton, Harvard, and the BFI). Hervé Joubert-Laurencin: a leading authority in France on Bazin as well as a specialist on the work of Pasolini. Publications include Pasolini: Portrait du poete en cineaste (1995 Diffusion Seuil), and La lettre volante: Quatre essais sur le cinema d'animation (1997 Presses de la Sorbonne nouvelle) Klappentext Features contributions from 33 renowned film scholars from four continents who have opened Bazin up in this new century, tracing his lineage, debating his aesthetics, locating him in the rich cultural moment of postwar France, and tracking the effect of his thought around the world. Zusammenfassung Andre Bazin remains one of the most read, most studied, and most engaging figures ever to have written about film. He is indisputably the cinema's most influential philosopher-critic. Always an important presence within cinema theory, Bazin, who died just over fifty years ago, has seen a massive resurgence of interest among critics, scholars, and students of every persuasion. The journal that he founded in 1951, Cahiers du Cinéma, marked the anniversary year of his death by republishing a dozen of his uncollected essays while Film Comment and Film Quarterly in the US published memorial issues; conferences were held worldwide. Last year also saw the opening of an electronic Bazin archive which consists of his entire output of 2600 pieces on a fascinating array of topics. These events represent an ideal springboard for a major collection about Bazin. The proposed volume will include essays from the best scholars of French cinema in the US and abroad. The contributors represent a pantheon of several generations of the very best film scholars: Gunning, Frodon, Margulies, Conley, MacCabe, Narboni, Vernet, Finally, Fifty years after his death, André Bazin's full range of articles has been catalogued. Armed with this, 33 scholars from four continents have opened Bazin up in this new century, tracing his lineage, debating his aesthetics, locating him in the rich cultural moment of postwar France, and tracking the effect of his thought around the world. This volume reinforces his preeminence as the most gifted and influential of all writers on film. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Andrew and Joubert-Laurencin A Binocular Preface 1.: Lineage Thomas Elsaesser A Bazinian Half-Century Ludovic Cortade Cinema Across Fault Lines: Bazin and the French School of Geography Tom Conley Evolution and Event in Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? Jean-François Chevrier The Reality of Hallucination in André Bazin Monica Dall'Asta Beyond the Image in Benjamin and Bazin: the Aura of the Event Colin MacCabe Bazin as Modernist Jean-Michel Frodon Film and Plaster: the Mould of History Diane Arnaud From Bazin to Deleuze. A Matter of Depth Louis-Georges Schwartz Deconstruction avant la lettre: Jacques Derrida before André Bazin 2.: Aesthetics Philip Rosen Belief in Bazin Tom Gunning The World in its Own Image: The Myth of Total Cinema Daniel Mor...

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Dudley Andrew: an Officier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres (French Ministry of Culture and Communication) and inductee into the America Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published The Major Film Theories, Concepts of Film Theory, and Andre Bazin, all with OUP as well as books on major filmmakers and 30s French culture (with Princeton, Harvard, and the BFI). Hervé Joubert-Laurencin: a leading authority in France on Bazin as well as a specialist on the work of Pasolini. Publications include Pasolini: Portrait du poete en cineaste (1995 Diffusion Seuil), and La lettre volante: Quatre essais sur le cinema d'animation (1997 Presses de la Sorbonne nouvelle)

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Features contributions from 33 renowned film scholars from four continents who have opened Bazin up in this new century, tracing his lineage, debating his aesthetics, locating him in the rich cultural moment of postwar France, and tracking the effect of his thought around the world.

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Andre Bazin remains one of the most read, most studied, and most engaging figures ever to have written about film. He is indisputably the cinema's most influential philosopher-critic. Always an important presence within cinema theory, Bazin, who died just over fifty years ago, has seen a massive resurgence of interest among critics, scholars, and students of every persuasion. The journal that he founded in 1951, Cahiers du Cinéma, marked the anniversary year of his death by republishing a dozen of his uncollected essays while Film Comment and Film Quarterly in the US published memorial issues; conferences were held worldwide. Last year also saw the opening of an electronic Bazin archive which consists of his entire output of 2600 pieces on a fascinating array of topics. These events represent an ideal springboard for a major collection about Bazin. The proposed volume will include essays from the best scholars of French cinema in the US and abroad. The contributors represent a pantheon of several generations of the very best film scholars: Gunning, Frodon, Margulies, Conley, MacCabe, Narboni, Vernet, Finally, Fifty years after his death, André Bazin's full range of articles has been catalogued. Armed with this, 33 scholars from four continents have opened Bazin up in this new century, tracing his lineage, debating his aesthetics, locating him in the rich cultural moment of postwar France, and tracking the effect of his thought around the world. This volume reinforces his preeminence as the most gifted and influential of all writers on film.

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• Acknowledgments

• Andrew and Joubert-Laurencin A Binocular Preface

• 1.: Lineage

• Thomas Elsaesser A Bazinian Half-Century

• Ludovic Cortade Cinema Across Fault Lines: Bazin and the French School of Geography

• Tom Conley Evolution and Event in Qu'est-ce que le cinéma?

• Jean-François Chevrier The Reality of Hallucination in André Bazin

• Monica Dall'Asta Beyond the Image in Benjamin and Bazin: the Aura of the Event

• Colin MacCabe Bazin as Modernist

• Jean-Michel Frodon Film and Plaster: the Mould of History

• Diane Arnaud From Bazin to Deleuze. A Matter of Depth

• Louis-Georges Schwartz Deconstruction avant la lettre: Jacques Derrida before André Bazin

• 2.: Aesthetics

• Philip Rosen Belief in Bazin

• Tom Gunning The World in its Own Image: The Myth of Total Cinema

• Daniel Morgan The Afterlife of Superimposition

• Angela Dalle Vacche The Difference of Cinema in the System of the Arts

• Dudley Andrew Malraux, Bazin, and the Gesture of Picasso

• Noa Steimatsky Incoherent Spasms and the Dignity of Signs: Bazin's Bresson

• Seung-hoon Jeong Animals: an Adventure in Bazin's Ontology

• Ivone Margulies Bazin's Exquisite Corpses

• Hervé Joubert-Laurencin Re-Writing the Image: Two Effects of the Future-Perfect in André Bazin

• 3.: Historic…