Opening Bazin: postwar film theory and its afterlife

Andrew, Dudley; Joubert-Laurencin, Herve

Opening Bazin: postwar film theory and its afterlife

Dudley Andrew and Herve Joubert-Laurencin

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Frontmatter
A Binocular Preface
Dudley Andrew and Hervé Joubert-Laurencin (page ix)
Acknowledgments (page xvii)
PART ONE Lineage
- 1. A Bazinian Half-Century (Thomas Elsaesser, page 3)
- 2. Cinema Across Fault Lines: Bazin and the French School of Geography (Ludovic Cortade, page 13)
- 3. Evolution and Event in Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? (Tom Conley, page 32)
- 4. The Reality of Hallucination in André Bazin (Jean-François Chevrier, page 42)
- 5. Beyond the Image in Benjamin and Bazin: The Aura of the Event (Monica Dall'Asta, page 57)
- 6. Bazin as Modernist (Colin MacCabe, page 66)
- 7. Film and Plaster: The Mold of History (Jean-Michel Frodon, page 77)
- 8. From Bazin to Deleuze: A Matter of Depth (Diane Arnaud, page 85)
- 9. Deconstruction avant la lettre: Jacques Derrida Before André Bazin (Louis-George Schwartz, page 95)
PART TWO Aesthetics
- 10. Belief in Bazin (Philip Rosen, page 107)
- 11. The World in Its Own Image: The Myth of Total Cinema (Tom Gunning, page 119)
- 12. The Afterlife of Superimposition (Daniel Morgan, page 127)
- 13. The Difference of Cinema in the System of the Arts (Angela Dalle Vacche, page 142)
- 14. Malraux, Bazin, and the Gesture of Picasso (Dudley Andrew, page 153)
- 15. Incoherent Spasms and the Dignity of Signs: Basin's Bresson (Noa Steimatsky, page 167)
- 16. Animals: An Adventure in Bazin's Ontology (Seung-hoon Jeong, page 177)
- 17. Bazin's Exquisite Corpses (Ivone Margulies, page 186)
- 18. Rewriting the Image: Two Effects of the Future-Perfect in André Bazin (Hervé Joubert-Laurencin, page 200)
PART THREE Historical Moment
- 19. The Eloquent Image: The Postwar Mission of Film and Criticism (Philip Watts, page 215)
- 20. Bazin in Combat (Antoine de Baecque, page 225)
- 21. Bazin the Censor? (Marc Vernet, page 234)
- 22. Waves of Crisis in French Cinema (Jeremi Szaniawski, page 240)
- 23. Bazin's Chaplin Myth and the Corrosive Lettrists (Rochelle Fack, page 246)
- 24. Radical Ambitions in Postwar French Documentary (Steven Ungar, page 254)
- 25. Bazin on the Margins of the Seventh Art (Grant Wiedenfeld, page 262)
- 26. Television and the Auteur in the Late '50s (Michael Cramer, page 268)
- 27. André Bazin's Bad Taste (James Tweedie, page 275)
PART FOUR Worldwide Influence
- 28. Montage Under Suspicion: Bazin's Russo-Soviet Reception (John MacKay, page 291)
- 29. From Ripples to Waves: Bazin in Eastern Europe (Alice Lovejoy, page 302)
- 30. Bazin in Brazil: A Welcome Visitor (Ismail Xavier, page 308)
- 31. Bazin and the Politics of Realism in Mainland China (Cecile Lagesse, page 316)
- 32. Japanese Readings: The Textual Thread (Kan Nozaki, page 324)
- 33. Japanese Lessons: Bazin's Cinematic Cosmopolitanism (Ryan Cook, page 330)
Notes on Contributors (page 335)
Index of Names (page 339)
Index of Films (page 345)
Index of Terms (page 349)

Reviews
Journal Abbreviation	Label	URL
FSQR	67.4 (Oct. 2013): 590-591	http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/french_studies_a_quarterly_review/v067/67.4.reader.html
FQ	65.4 Summer 2012: 65-67	http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/FQ.2012.65.4.65

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Published: c2011

Publisher: Oxford University Press

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