André Bazin Libros

The philosophy and unique insights of the late French film critic are revealed in these essays.

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.

"Adaptation was central to André Bazin's lifelong query: What is cinema? Placing films alongside literature let him identify the aesthetic and sociological distinctiveness of each. More importantly, it helped him wage his campaign for a modern conception of cinema, one that owed a great deal to developments in the novel. His critical genius is on full display in this collection, where readers are introduced to the foundational concepts of the relationship between film and literary adaptation as put forth by one of the greatest film and cultural critics of the 20th century. Expertly curated and with an introduction by celebrated film scholar Dudley Andrew, the book begins with a selection of essays that show Bazin's film theory in action, followed by reviews of films adapted from renowned novelists of the day (Conrad, Hemingway, Steinbeck; Colette, Sagan, Duras; and more) as well as classic novels of the 19th century (Bronte, Melville, Tolstoy; Balzac, Hugo, Zola; Stendhal and more). Taken together, this volume will be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in literary adaptation, authorship, classical film theory, French film history, and André Bazin's criticism alike. As a bonus, 250 years of French fiction is put in play as Bazin assesses adaptation after adaptation to determine what is at stake for culture, for literature and especially for cinema"--

'Der Titel dieser Artikelreihe ›Was ist Kino?‹ ist nicht so sehr das Versprechen einer Antwort als vielmehr eine Frage, die der Autor auf all diesen Seiten sich selber stellt. Diese Zeilen erheben also durchaus nicht den Anspruch, eine erschöpfende Geologie oder Geographie des Kinos vorzulegen, sondern lediglich den Leser anläßlich der Filme, die sich dem Kritiker tagtäglich zur Reflexion anboten, auf eine Reihe von Expeditionen, Sondierungen, Überflüge mitzunehmen. 'André Bazin Erstmalig liegt auf deutsch die vollständige und neu übersetzteFassung des französischen Klassikers vor – der französischen édition definitive, die die vierbändige Ausgabemit Schriften aus den Jahren 1958–1962 ersetzte. Die Auswahl für diesen Band stammt von Bazins Witwe und François Truffaut, das Vorwort von André Bazin selbst. André Bazin, hochgeschätzt von Bresson, Buñuel, Carné, Cocteau, Fellini, Langlois, Visconti und Renoir, entwickelteein neues Filmbewußtsein und wirkte mit seinen Reflexionenauf die Filmgeschichte ein. Ihm ging es um das, was Film aus eigener Kraft und eigenen Mitteln zu leisten imstande ist.