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Informationen zum Autor Dudley Andrew is the R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale University. The author of many books, including Mists of Regret (1995) and Popular Front Paris (2005), he is an Officier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Klappentext What Cinema Is! offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazin's famous question through a sweeping look back over the phenomenal ascendancy of a certain "idea of cinema." Written by one of the foremost film scholars of our time, this provocative volume proclaims cinema's distinct value not just for the last century but for our current audio-visual culture. Whatever cinema may yet become, this unique "idea" should orient and guide it. Examining cinema's institutions and its social force - but always through the qualities of key films - What Cinema Is! testifies to the power of something that didn't even exist before 1895. From the art films cherished by cinephiles after World War II through the banner years of the New Wave to a technologically "expanded" cinema, Andrew traces the long nerve of this idea that has made cinema supremely alive to (and in) our times. Zusammenfassung What Cinema Is! offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazin'sfamous question, exploring his 'idea of cinema' with a sweepinglook back at the near century of Cinema's phenomenal ascendancy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Prologue: The Target of Film Theory xiii 1 The Camera Searching in the World 1 Is a Camera Essential? 1 The Cahiers Axiom 4 Tracing Bazin's Trace 11 Images Contested Today 17 2 The Editor's Discovery of Form 29 Bazin's Forerunners 31 Documentaries in the Cauldron of History 37 The Cahiers Line 42 Pursuing Cinema in the Twenty-First Century 48 3 The Projector as Spectator's Searchlight 66 The Power of Projection 69 Opening the Screen's Dimensions 74 Frame as Threshold 79 Writing out of the Frame 90 4 The Evolution of the Subjects of Cinema 98 Modern Film: Between Classic and Avant-Garde 99 The Ontogeny of Cinema 110 Credits and Auteurs: An Ecology of Adaptation 123 Fidelity: The Economy of Adaptation 129 Index 147 ...
