André Bazin
 André Bazin. | |
| Born |
April 18, 1918 Angers, France |
|---|---|
| Died |
November 11, 1958 (aged 40) Nogent-sur-Marne, France |
André Bazin (18 April 1918 – 11 November 1958) was a French film critic and film theorist. Bazin started to write about film in 1943 and was a co-founder of the renowned film magazine Cahiers du cinéma (1951).
Works
(in French unles noted)
- Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? (in 4 volumes), Éditions du Cerf, 1958-1962 (Vol. I: Ontologie et langage, Vol. II: Le cinéma et les autres arts, Vol. III: Cinéma et sociologie, Vol. IV: Une esthétique de la Réalité: le néo-réalisme). New edition: Les Éditions du CERF, 2003.
- What is Cinema? Vol. I, trans. Hugh Gray, 2005. (English)
- What is Cinema? Vol. II, trans. Hugh Gray, 2005.(English)
- Jean Renoir, avant-propos de Jean Renoir, éditions Champ libre, 1971.
- Jean Renoir, trans. W. W. Halsey II and William H. Simon, London & New York: W.H.Allen, 1974. Log (English)
- Orson Welles, Éditions du Cerf, 1972.
- Orson Welles: a critical view, New York: Harper & Row, 1978. (English)
- Orson Welles, trans. Andre Telles, Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar, 2006. (Portuguese)
- "Bazin on Marker", trans. Dave Kehr, in Chris Marker, Around the World with Chris Marker, Part 2: Time Regained, 2003, pp 44-45. First appeared in French in France-Observateur, 30 October 1958. (English)
Literature
- Dudley Andrew, What Cinema Is! Bazin’s Quest and its Charge, Blackwell Manifestos, 2010.
- Bert Cardullo (ed.), André Bazin and Italian Neorealism, London: Continuum, 2011, IA.
- Dudley Andrew and Hervé Joubert-Laurencin (eds.), Opening Bazin: Postwar Film Theory and Its Afterlife, Oxford Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Mark Durden (ed.), Fifty Key Writers on Photography, Routledge, 2013.
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