Opening Bazin: Postwar Film Theory and Its Afterlife

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Dudley Andrew (R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature, R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature, Yale University) Herve Joubert-Laurencin

Opening Bazin

Postwar Film Theory and Its Afterlife

Dudley Andrew (R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature, R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature, Yale University), Herve Joubert-Laurencin

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English

31 March 2011

Film, TV & Radio; Film theory & criticism; Literary studies: general; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000

With the full range of his voluminous writings finally viewable, André Bazin seems more deserving than ever to be considered the most influential of all writers on film. His brief career, 1943-58, helped bring about the leap from classical cinema to the modern art of Renoir, Welles, and neorealism.

Founder of Cahiers du Cinéma, he encouraged the future New Wave directors to confront his telltale question, What is Cinema? This collection considers another vital question, Who is Bazin? In it, thirty three renowned film scholars--including de Baecque, Elsaesser, Gunning, and MacCabe--tackle Bazin's meaning for the 2st century. They have found in his writings unmistakable traces of Flaubert, Bergson, Breton, and Benjamin and they have pursued this vein to the gold mine of Deleuze and Derrida. They have probed and assessed his ideas on film history, style, and technique, measuring him against today's media regime, while measuring that regime against him. They have located the precious ore of his thought couched within striations of French postwar politics and culture, and they have revealed the unexpected effects of that thought on filmmakers and film culture on four continents. Open Bazin; you will find a treasure.

By: Herve Joubert-Laurencin
Edited by: Dudley Andrew (R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature Yale University)
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 249mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 658g
ISBN: 9780199733897
ISBN 10: 0199733899
Publication Date: 31 March 2011
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dudley Andrew and Herve Joubert-Laurencin: A Binocular Preface Acknowledgments Part One: Lineage 1: Thomas Elsaesser: A Bazinian Half-Century 2: Ludovic Cortade: Cinema Across Fault Lines: Bazin and the French School of Geography 3: Tom Conley: Evolution and Event in Qu'est-ce que le cinema? 4: Jean-Francois Chevrier: The Reality of Hallucination in Andre Bazin 5: Monica Dall'Asta: Beyond the Image in Benjamin and Bazin: The Aura of the Event 6: Colin MacCabe: Bazin as Modernist 7: Jean-Michel Frodon: Film and Plaster: The Mold of History 8: Diane Arnaud: From Bazin to Deleuze: A Matter of Depth 9: Louis-Georges Schwartz: Deconstruction avant la lettre: Jacques Derrida Before Andre Bazin Part Two: Aesthetics 10: Philip Rosen: Belief in Bazin 11: Tom Gunning: The World in Its Own Image: The Myth of Total Cinema 12: Daniel Morgan: The Afterlife of Superimposition 13: Angela Dalle Vacche: The Difference of Cinema in the System of the Arts 14: Dudley Andrew: Malraux, Bazin, and the Gesture of Picasso 15: Noa Steimatskky: Incoherent Spasms and the Dignity of Signs: Bazin's Bresson 16: Seung-hoon Jeong: Animals: an Adventure in Bazin's Ontology 17: Ivone Margulies: Bazin's Exquisite Corpses 18: Herve Joubert-Laurencin: Rewriting the Image: Two Effects of the Future-Perfect in Andre Bazin Part Three: Historical Moment 19: Philip Watts: The Eloquent Image: The Postwar Mission of Film and Criticism 20: Antoine de Baecque: Bazin in Combat 21: Marc Vernet: Bazin the Censor? 22: Jeremi Szaniawski: Waves of Crisis in French Cinema 23: Rochelle Frack: Bazin's Chaplin Myth and the Corrosive Lettrists 24: Steven Ungar: Radical Ambitions in Postwar French Documentary 25: Grant Wiedenfeld: Bazin on the Margins of the Seventh Art 26: Michael Cramer: Television and the Auteur in the Late '50s 27: James Tweedie: Andre Bazin's Bad Taste Part Four: Worldwide Influence 28: John MacKay: Montage Under Suspicion: Bazin's Russo-Soviet Reception 29: Alice Lovejoy: From Ripples to Waves: Bazin in Eastern Europe 30: Ismail Xavier: Bazin in Brazil: A Welcome Visitor 31: Cecile Lagesse: Bazin and the Politics of Realism in Mainland China 32: Kan Nozaki: Japanese Readings: Textual Thread 33: Ryan Cook: Japanese Lessons: Bazin's Cinematic Cosmopolitanism

Reviews for Opening Bazin: Postwar Film Theory and Its Afterlife

""This amazing collection, whose contributors are some of the most distinguished contemporary film scholars, rescues Bazin from the ossified stereotypes that have come to define him in film pedagogy--realism vs. formalism, depth of field vs. editing, humanism vs. Marxism. It sheds light on the complexities and intricacies of the Bazin oeuvre in all its diversity and delineates the ways in which his work illuminates the definitive impact of film as an art in the 20th century.""--Mary Ann Doane, Brown University ""Elegantly moving across disciplines, history, theory and geography, the essays in Opening Bazin construct an invaluable and vivid picture of Bazin as film theorist, film critic and engaged intellectual. It seems throughout to amount to more than the study of one man. However its richness and diversity is derived from those qualities in Bazin himself, so just as the book transcends its subject, he himself returns not only as its generative figure but also as an emblem of the peculiar and elusive nature of the cinema itself.""--Laura Mulvey, Birbeck, University of London