A 670-page collection of writings by André Bazin throughout his entire career. The most comprehensive edition of Bazin’s writings in English, casting his ideas in an entirely new light. Soon to be accompanied by over 2,000 epigrams from his entire body of work, André Bazin, Rhetorician: Epigrams 1942-1958.
The lively discussions in the essays in this volume explore questions of film aesthetics from unique theoretical and historical perspectives around these three fundamental concepts.
The first-ever English translation of this monumental discussion of film art by cinema’s preeminent director, incorporating countless corrections and additions to the French edition.