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André Bazin (French:; 18 April 1918 – 11 November 1958) was a renowned and influential French film critic and film theorist. He started to write about film in 1943 and was a co-founder of the renowned film magazine Cahiers du cinéma in 1951, with Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca .
Mar 14, 2024 · André Bazin (b. 1918–d. 1958) may well be the most influential critic ever to have written about cinema. He contributed daily reviews to Paris’s largest-circulation newspaper, Le Parisien libéré , and he wrote hundreds of essays for weeklies ( Le nouvel observateur, Télérama ) and such esteemed monthly journals as Esprit and Cahiers du ...
Apr 18, 2018 · André Bazin, the high priest of realism, practically invented film studies. It’s time he was rehabilitated from postmodern sneers, argues Peter Matthews. This piece from our August 1999 issue is republished in honour of Bazin’s centenary.
Jul 7, 2003 · by Donato Totaro Volume 7, Issue 7 / July 2003 23 minutes (5677 words) André Bazin, film critic, theorist, philosopher, and humanist wrote a series of essays between the years 1944 and 1958, before he died at the young age of 40.
The French film critic André Bazin (1918-1958) is considred by many to be the father of film criticism as it is practiced today. Immensely influential in his native France and beyond, Bazin transformed film criticism from simple description and evaluation of the film under discussion into an evaluation of film as a serious art form, including ...
André Bazin's What Is Cinema? (volumes I and II) have been classics of film studies for as long as they've been available and are considered the gold standard in the field of film criticism....
André Bazin plays a central role in the history of film and media studies. Initially praised by modernist filmmakers and proponents of French film criticism of the 1950s, Bazin shortly after became one of the most denounced thinkers in an academic film studies informed by Althusserian Marxism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, structuralism and, later ...
