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 cinem a's distinction from the current enthusiasm over audio-visual entertainment, without relegating cinema to a single, older mode- Exam ines cinema's institutions and its social force through the qualities of key films- Traces the history of an idea that has made cine ma supre...[Read more]