Overview :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 ... Read More
Overview :Andre Bazin, often dubbed the father of the French New Wave, has had an immense impact on film art. He is credited with almost single-handed... Read More
Overview :A remarkable continuation of Dudley Andrew's classic, The Major Film Theories, this work focuses on the key concepts in film study: percepti... Read More
Overview :Breathless, a low-budget film, came to be regarded as one of the major accomplishments of the French New Wave cinema of the early sixties. I... Read More
Overview :Kenji Mizoguchi's masterpiece Sansh Day (1954) retells a classic Japanese folktale about an eleventh-century feudal official forced into e... Read More
Overview :It is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were ... Read More
Overview :Just before World War II, French cinema reached a high point that has been dubbed the style of "poetic realism." Working with unforgettable ... Read More
Overview :Both a history of film theory and an introduction to the work of the most important writers in the field, Andrew's volume reveals the bases ... Read More
Overview :Photography, cinema, and video have irrevocably changed the ways in which we view and interpret images. Indeed, the mechanical reproduction ... Read More