André Bazin, the critic as thinker : American cinema from early Chaplin to the late 1950s / translated and edited by R.J. Cardullo.
Cardullo, Bert, translator, editor.
2017
PN1998.3.B39 A64 2017
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Title André Bazin, the critic as thinker : American cinema from early Chaplin to the late 1950s / translated and edited by R.J. Cardullo.
ISBN 9789463008785 (electronic book)
9463008780 (electronic book)
9789463008785
9463008780
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-878-5
Publication Details Rotterdam : SensePublishers, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xx, 337 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-94-6300-878-5 doi
Call Number PN1998.3.B39 A64 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.43/092
Summary "André Bazin (1918-58) 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. Among those who came under his tutelage were four who would go on to become the most renowned directors of the postwar French cinema: François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, and Claude Chabrol. Bazin can also be considered the principal instigator of the equally influential auteur theory: the idea that, since film is an art form, the director of a movie must be perceived as the chief creator of its unique cinematic style. André Bazin, the Critic as Thinker: American Cinema from Early Chaplin to the Late 1950s contains, for the first time in English in one volume, much if not all of Bazin's writings on American cinema: on directors such as Orson Welles, Charles Chaplin, Preston Sturges, Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, John Huston, Nicholas Ray, Erich von Stroheim, and Elia Kazan; and on films such as High Noon, Citizen Kane, Rear Window, Limelight, Scarface, Niagara, The Red Badge of Courage, Greed, and Sullivan's Travels. André Bazin, the Critic as Thinker: American Cinema from Early Chaplin to the Late 1950s also features a sizable scholarly apparatus, including a contextual introduction to Bazin's life and work, a complete bibliography of Bazin's writings on American cinema, and credits of the films discussed. This volume thus represents a major contribution to the still growing academic discipline of cinema studies, as well as a testament to the continuing influence of one of the world's pre-eminent critical thinkers."
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Acknowledgements
List of Film Images
Introduction
I: Themes and Genres
Westerns and Americans
Howard Hughes's The Outlaw
A Meta-Western: Fred Zinnemann's High Noon
The Western, or the American Film Par Excellence
The Evolution of the Western
Brilliant Variations on Some Well-Known Notes: Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar
The Exemplary Beauty of Westerns: Anthony Mann's The Man from Laramie and Budd Boetticher's Seven Men from Now
War and Peace
Howard Hawks's Air Force
On Frank Capra's Why We Fight: History, Documentation, and the Newsreel
On Ambiguity: John Huston's The Red Badge of Courage
War Films: Richard Fleischer's Between Heaven and Hell and Anthony Mann's Men in War
Stanley Kramer's The Pride and the Passion
High Infidelity: David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai
Stars and Goddesses
Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl
Henry Hathaway's Niagara
Doll in the Flesh, Cotton on Fire: Elia Kazan's Baby Doll
The Death of Humphrey Bogart
The Question of James Dean
Off the Beaten Path: John Cromwell's The Goddess
Fugitives and Criminals
Howard Hawks's Scarface and the Gangster Film
Joseph Losey's M: Remade in the U.S.A.
Women in Cages: John Cromwell's Caged
Film through a Telephoto Lens: Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, & Ruth Orkin's The Little Fugitive
Sociological Routines: Philip Dunne's Ten North Frederick
Jean Renoir's The Woman on the Beach, The Southerner, and The Diary of a Chambermaid
II: Artists and Directors
Charles Chaplin [1889-1977]
Charlie Chaplin
The Myth of Monsieur Verdoux
Limelight, or the Death of Molière
The Grandeur of Limelight
Alfred Hitchcock [1899-1980]
On Shadow of a Doubt, Lifeboat, and Rear Window
Pan Shot of Hitchcock
Must We Believe in Hitchcock?
Hitchcock vs. Hitchcock
Erich von Stroheim [1885-1957]
Erich von Stroheim: Form, Uniform, and Cruelty
Preston Sturges [1898-1959]
On Sullivan's Travels
On The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
On Hail the Conquering Hero
On Mad Wednesday
Orson Welles [1915-85]
The Technique of Citizen Kane
On Welles's Othello
Interview with Orson Welles
Orson Welles Cannibalized
William Wyler [1902-81]
William Wyler, or the Jansenist of Directing
Film Credits (in order of discussion)
A Bazin Bibliography
Index.

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