Andre Bazin&39s New Media [Paperback]

Andr? Bazins writings on cinema are among the most influential reflections on the medium ever written. Even so, his critical interests ranged widely and encompassed the new media of the 1950s, including television, 3D film, Cinerama, and CinemaScope. Fifty-seven of his reviews and essays addressing these new technologiestheir artistic potential, social influence, and relationship to existing art formshave been translated here for the first time in English with notes and an introduction by leading Bazin authority Dudley Andrew. These essays show Bazins astute approach to a range of visual media and the relevance of his critical thought to our own era of new media. An exciting companion to the essentialWhat Is Cinema?volumes,Andr? Bazins New Mediais excellent for classroom use and vital for anyone interested in the history of media.

Andr? Bazin(19181958) was the premier film theorist of the first century of cinema. Primarily associated with the journalCahiers du cin?ma,which he cofounded in 1951, he wrote for many other journals as well.

Editor and translatorDudley Andrewis R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale University. His books includeThe Major Film Theories, Concepts in Film Theory, Andr? Bazin, Film in the Aura of Art, Sansho Dayu, Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film,andPopular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture.

Editors Note: About This Collection?
Introduction: Andr? Bazin Meets the New Media of the 1950s?
PART ONE. THE ONTOLOGY AND LANGUAGE OF TELEVISION
1. The Aesthetic Future of Television?
2. In Quest of T?l?genie?
3. Television Is Unbeatable for Live Coverage?
4. Was It Live? Preserve Our Illusions?
5. The Talking Head: Must the Commissaire Stand on His Head for TV??
6. Television Is Neither Theater nor Cinema?
7. At the Venice Festival, TV Shares the Screel#²