Andr Bazin

Andr Bazin (April 18, 1918November 11, 1958) was a famous and influential French film critic and film theorist.

Biography

Bazin was born in Angers, France. He started to write on film in 1943 and was co-founder of the Cahiers du cinma in 1951. As a spiritual father of the Nouvelle Vague (French New Wave) he was also a personal friend to Jean-Luc Godard, Franois Truffaut, Robert Bresson, Luis Buuel, Marcel Carn, Jean Cocteau, Henri Langlois, Luchino Visconti and Jean Renoir. He died in Nogent-sur-Marne, le-de-France. Bazin practically invented film studies – two of his translated collections of criticism are mainstays of film courses; What is Cinema, volumes 1 & 2. He wanted the film picture to be treated respectfully and believed in the unveiling potential of film: the possibility to depict reality. Bazin is known as a proponent of "appreciative criticism," wherein only critics who like a film can write a review of it, thus encouraging constructive criticism.

Bibliography

In English:
  • What Is Cinema?, by Andr Bazin (1967)
  • Orson Welles, by Andr Bazin (1979)
  • French Cinema of the Occupation and Resistance: The Birth of a Critical Esthetic, by Andr Bazin (1982)
  • The Cinema of Cruelty: From Bunuel to Hitchcock, by Andr Bazin (1982)
  • Essays on Chaplin, by Andr Bazin (1985)
  • Jean Renoir, by Andr Bazin (1992)
  • Bazin at Work: Major Essays & Reviews from the Forties and Fifties, by Andr Bazin, Bert Cardullo (ed.) (1996)
  • French Cinema from the Liberation to the New Wave, 1945-1958, by Andr Bazin, Bert Cardullo (ed.) (2004)

Online texts

External links

Bazin, Andre Bazin, Andre Bazin, Andre

 

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