Beschrijving
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
Boekdetails
Formaat
Kindle
Pagina's
184 pagina's
Taal
Engels
Gepubliceerd
feb. 12, 2010
Uitgever
Wiley-Blackwell
Edities
2 edities
ISBN-10
1444320572
ISBN-13
9781444320572