Description
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 time Establishes cinema's distinction from the current enthusiasm over audio-visual entertainment, without relegating cinema to a single, older mode Examines cinema's institutions and its social force through the qualities of key films Traces the history of an idea that has made cinema supremely alive to (and in) our times
Détails du livre
Format
Kindle
Pages
184 pages
Langue
Anglais
Publié
févr. 12, 2010
Éditeur
Wiley-Blackwell
Éditions
2 éditions
ISBN-10
1444320572
ISBN-13
9781444320572