Bazin at work : major essays and reviews from the forties and fifties

Bazin's impact on film art, as theorist and critic, is considered to be greater than that of any single director, actor, or producer. He is credited with almost single-handedly establishing the study of film as an accepted intellectual pursuit, as well as with being the spiritual father of the French New Wave. **__Bazin at Work__** is the first English collection of disparate Bazin writings since the appearance of the second volume of __What Is____Cinema?__ in 1971. It includes work from __Cahiers le cinema__ (which he founded and which is the most influential single critical periodical in the history of the cinema) and __Esprit__. He addresses filmmakers including Rossellini, Eisenstein, Pagnol, and Capra and well-known films including __La Strada__, __Citizen Kane__, __Scarface__, and __The Bridge on the River Kwai__. Film Theorist, Critic, Founder Of The Influential Journal Cahiers Du Cinema And Spiritual Father Of The French New Wave, Andre Bazin Almost Single-handedly Established The Study Of Film As An Accepted Intellectual Pursuit. Although His Career Was Brief, His Impact On Film Is Widely Considered Greater Than That Of Any Single Director, Actor, Or Producer. This Collection Of Bazin's Fugitive Writings Is The First Volume Of Work To Appear In English In Twenty-five Years. Bazin At Work Includes Previously Untranslated Selections From The Four Volumes Of Qu'est Que Le Cinema? And From Such Magazines As Cahiers Du Cinema And Esprit Bazin Addresses Such Significant Subjects As Film Adaptation, Cinemascope, And Religious Cinema, Such Prominent Filmmakers Rossellini, Eisenstein, Pagnol, And Capra, And Well-known Films Including La Strada, Citizen Kane, Scarface, And The Bridge On The River Kwai [publisher Description]. Introduction / Bert Cardullo -- Part 1 : Bazin On Directors And On Cinema -- William Wyler, Or The Jansenist Of Directing -- The Myth Of Stalin In The Soviet Cinema -- Adaptation, Or The Cinema As Digest -- The Case Of Marcel Pagnol -- Cinema And Theology -- The Life And Death Of Superimposition -- Will Cinemascope Save The Film Industry? -- The Cybernetics Of Andre Cayatte -- Part 2 : Bazin On Individual Films -- Farrebique, Or The Paradox Of Realism -- The Crisis Of French Cinema, Or Scarface And The Gangster Film -- La Strada -- Germany, Year Zero -- Niagara -- Forbidden Games -- Europe '51 -- The Last Vacation, Or The Style Is The Man Himself -- Cruel Naples (gold Of Naples) -- Senso -- The Style Is The Genre (les Diaboliques) -- M. Ripois, With Or Without Nemesis -- Two Cents' Worth Of Hope -- The Profound Originality Of I Vitelloni -- On Why We Fight : History, Documentation, And The Newsreel -- The Road To Hope -- Battle Of The Rails And Ivan The Terrible -- A Saint Becomes A Saint Only After The Fact (heaven Over The Marshes) -- A Bergsonian Film : The Picasso Mystery -- Il Bidone, Or The Road To Salvation Reconsidered -- High Infidelity (the Bridge On The River Kwai) -- The Technique Of Citizen Kane -- A Bazin Bibliography. André Bazin ; Translated From The French By Alain Piette And Bert Cardullo ; Edited By Bert Cardullo. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 241-244) And Index. "Film theorist, critic, founder of the influential journal Cahiers du Cinema and spiritual father of the French New Wave, Andre Bazin almost single-handedly established the study of film as an accepted intellectual pursuit. Although his career was brief, his impact on film is widely considered greater than that of any single director, actor, or producer."--BOOK JACKET. "This collection of Bazin's fugitive writings is the first volume of work to appear in English in twenty-five years. Bazin at Work includes previously untranslated selections from the four volumes of Qu'est que le cinema? and from such magazines as Cahiers du cinema and Esprit Bazin addresses such significant subjects as film adaptation, CinemaScope, and religious cinema, such prominent filmmakers Rossellini, Eisenstein, Pagnol, and Capra, and well-known films including La Strada, Citizen Kane, Scarface, and The Bridge on the River Kwai."--Jacket Bazin's impact on film art, as theorist and critic, is considered to be greater than that of any single director, actor, or producer. He is credited with almost single-handedly establishing the study of film as an accepted intellectual pursuit, as well as with being the spiritual father of the French New Wave. Bazin at Work is the first English collection of disparate Bazin writings since the appearance of the second volume of What Is Cinema? in 1971. It includes work from Cahiers le cinema (which he founded and which is the most influential single critical periodical in the history of the cinema) and Esprit . He addresses filmmakers including Rossellini, Eisenstein, Pagnol, and Capra and well-known films including La Strada , Citizen Kane , Scarface , and The Bridge on the River Kwai .