Bazin at Work: Major Essays & Reviews from the Forties & Fifties

André Bazin

Psychology Press, 1997 - Performing Arts - 252 pages

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.

Contents

• William Wyler or the Jansenist of Directing 1: 19
• The Myth of Stalin in the Soviet Cinema 23 3 7 3 5 3 X X: 23
• Adaptation or the Cinema as Digest: 41
• The Case of Marcel Pagnol: 53
• Cinema and Theology: 63
• The Life and Death of Superimposition: 73
• Will CinemaScope Save the Film Industry?: 77
• The Cybernetics of André Cayatte: 93
• PART TWO BAZIN ON INDIVIDUAL FILMS: 101
• Farrebique or the Paradox of Realism: 105
• The Crisis of French Cinema or Scarface and the: 109
• La Strada: 113
• Germany Year Zero: 121
• Niagara: 125
• Forbidden Games: 129
• Europe 51: 137
• The Last Vacation or The Style Is the Man Himself: 141
• Cruel Naples Gold of Naples: 151
• Senso: 159
• The Style Is the Genre Les Diaboliques: 163
• Ripois with or without Nemesis: 169
• Two Cents Worth of Hope: 179
• The Profound Originality of I Vitelloni: 185
• History Documentation and the Newsreel: 187
• The Road to Hope: 193
• Battle of the Rails and Ivan the Terrible: 197
• A Saint Becomes a Saint Only After the Fact: 205
• The Picasso Mystery: 211
• Bidone or the Road to Salvation Reconsidered: 221
• High Infidelity The Bridge on the River Kwai: 225
• The Technique of Citizen Kane: 231
• A Bazin Bibliography: 241
• Index: 245

Bibliographic information

• Title: Bazin at Work: Major Essays & Reviews from the Forties & Fifties; Film studies
• Author: André Bazin
• Editor: Bert Cardullo
• Translated by: Bert Cardullo
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Psychology Press, 1997
• ISBN: 0415900182, 9780415900188
• Length: 252 pages
• Subjects: Performing Arts / Film / Guides & Reviews; Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism; Social Science / Media Studies