André Bazin

Born	April 18, 1918(1918-04-18) Angers, France
Died	November 11, 1958(1958-11-11) (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?, 4 vols., Cerf, 1958-62 (I: Ontologie et langage; II: Le cinéma et les autres arts; III: Cinéma et sociologie; IV: Une esthétique de la Réalité: le néo-réalisme); new ed., Cerf, 2003.
  • What is Cinema?, 2 vol., trans. Hugh Gray, University of California Press, 1967; 2005, IA/I, IA/II. (English)

• Jean Renoir, avant-propos de Jean Renoir, 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, Cerf, 1972.
  • Orson Welles: a critical view, New York: Harper & Row, 1978. (English)
  • Orson Welles, trans. André Telles, Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar, 2005; 2006, PDF. (Brazilian Portuguese)

• "Chris Marker", France-Observateur, 30 Oct 1958.
  • "Bazin on Marker", trans. Dave Kehr, in Chris Marker, Around the World with Chris Marker, Part 2: Time Regained, 2003, pp 44-45. (English)

Literature

• Dudley Andrew, What Cinema Is! Bazin’s Quest and its Charge, Blackwell Manifestos, 2010, IA. (English)
• Bert Cardullo (ed.), André Bazin and Italian Neorealism, London: Continuum, 2011, IA. (English)
• Dudley Andrew, Hervé Joubert-Laurencin (eds.), Opening Bazin: Postwar Film Theory and Its Afterlife, Oxford University Press, 2011, IA. (English)
• Mark Durden (ed.), Fifty Key Writers on Photography, Routledge, 2013. (English)

Links

• Bazin on French Wikipedia