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- He argues that the production of an image through mechanical means has influenced our psychology of it. It confers on the photographic image an objectivity and quality of credibility absent from other art forms. It encourages an acceptance of existence of the object in time and space.
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To Bazin the cinema is inherently realistic because of the mechanical mediation of the camera. This is not the same as saying that cinema is “objective” in any sense other than relative, and that cinema is untouched by ideological and cultural factors, as many of Bazin’s critics have said.
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Mar 14, 2024 · A succinct summary of the core of Bazin’s ideas about, and attitude toward, cinema. Historical concerns are minimized while the logic and connectedness of the various directions of Bazin’s thought are emphasized.
Dec 1, 2008 · To Bazin the process of photography ‘confers on [an object] a quality of credibility’. 10 Bazin explains that we ‘accept as real the existence of the object reproduced, actually re-presented, set before us, that is to say, in time and space’. 11 Bazin is arguing that photography and cinema communicates an items existence to us and we ...
This article focuses on objectivity and duration as main features of the realistic understanding of cinema defended by André Bazin. In so doing, it establishes a dialogue between Bazin’s ideas and those of contemporary theorists such as Gunning, Rosen and Carruthers.
- Angela Dalle Vacche
Bazin can arrive at the conclusion that 'the cinema is objectivity in time' (OPI, 14), and secondly that 'the cinema has not yet been invented' ( MTC , 21), a claim that is subtended by the belief that if the ontology of cinema lies in its duplication of the thing itself, then cinema will eventually end up by being indistinguishable from reality.
His call for objective reality, deep focus, and lack of montage are linked to his belief that the interpretation of a film or scene should be left to the spectator. This placed him in opposition to film theory of the 1920s and 1930s, which emphasized how the cinema could manipulate reality.
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