Andrew, Dudley
What Cinema Is!
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 near century of Cinema's phenomenal ascendancy.
- Written by one of the foremost film scholars of our time
- Establishes cinema’s distinction from the current enthusiasm over audio-visual entertainment, without relegating cinema to a single, older mode
- Examines cinema's institutions and its social force through the qualities of key films
- Traces the history of an idea that has made cinema supremely alive to (and in) our times
Keywords: Film Studies
- Author(s)
- Andrew, Dudley
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2011
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Blackwell Manifestos
- Page amount
- 184 pages
- Category
- Art, Art History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781444357417
- Printed ISBN
- 9781405107600