Andre Bazin's New Media
by André Bazin and Dudley Andrew
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André Bazin’s writings on cinema are among the most influential reflections on the medium ever written. Even so, his critical interests ranged widely and encompassed the “new media” of the 1950s, including television, 3D film, Cinerama, and CinemaScope. Fifty-seven of his reviews and essays addressing these new technologies—their artistic potential, social influence, and relationship to existing art forms—have been translated here for the first time in English with notes and an introduction by leading Bazin authority Dudley Andrew. These essays show Bazin’s astute approach to a range of visual media and the relevance of his critical thought to our own era of new media. An exciting companion to the essential What Is Cinema? volumes, André Bazin’s New Media is excellent for classroom use and vital for anyone interested in the history of media.
About the authors:
André Bazin (1918–1958) was the premier film theorist of the first century of cinema. Primarily associated with the journal Cahiers du cinéma, which he cofounded in 1951, he wrote for many other journals as well.
Editor and translator Dudley Andrew is R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale University. His books include The Major Film Theories, Concepts in Film Theory, André Bazin, Film in the Aura of Art, Sansho Dayu, Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film, and Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture.
Press Reviews:
"A panoramic and rewarding view of the most insightful and influential critic of cinema . . . most memorable and remarkable."— Critical Inquiry
"[André Bazin’s New Media] will have great importance for the fields of cinema study and media study alike. The individual essays will be a revelation (to use a Bazinian term) to many readers, and this will become a must-have volume for film scholars, media historians, and scholars on French cinema." —Dana Polan, Cinema Studies, New York University
> From the same authors:
Andre Bazin on Adaptation (2022)
Cinema's Literary Imagination
by André Bazin
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Sansho Dayu (2020)
(Sansho the Bailiff)
by Dudley Andrew and Carole Cavanaugh
Subject: One Film > Sansho the Bailiff
André Bazin, the Critic as Thinker (2017)
American Cinema from Early Chaplin to the Late 1950s
by André Bazin and R.J. Cardullo
Subject: Countries > United States
A Companion to François Truffaut (2013)
Dir. Dudley Andrew and Anne Gillain
Subject: Director > François Truffaut
Opening Bazin (2011)
Postwar Film Theory and Its Afterlife
Dir. Dudley Andrew and Herve Joubert-Laurencin
Subject: Theory
Sansho Dayu / Sansho the Baliff (2000)
by Dudley Andrew and Carole Cavanaugh
Subject: One Film > Sansho the Bailiff
Mists of Regret (1995)
Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film
The Gorgon's Gaze (1991)
German Cinema, Expressionism, and the Image of Horror
by Paul Coates, William Rothman and Dudley Andrew
> On a related topic:
New Takes on Film and Imagination (2020)
Paragraph, Volume 43, Issue 3
Dir. Sarah Cooper
Subject: Theory
V. F. Perkins on Movies (2020)
Collected Shorter Film Criticism
Dir. V. F. Perkins and Douglas Pye
Subject: Theory
Thinking in the Dark (2015)
Cinema, Theory, Practice
Dir. Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer
Subject: Theory
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