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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 .
- École Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud
- Film critic, film theorist
- 11 November 1958 (aged 40), Nogent-sur-Marne, France
Introduction to André Bazin, Part 1: Theory of Film Style in its Historical Context – Offscreen. André Bazin Revisited. 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.
Aug 9, 2022 · Over the past two decades, film scholarship has experienced a renewed interest in the theory of André Bazin. This French film critic is most commonly quoted regarding the ontological basis of realism, prompting some highly varied – and sometimes unexpected – readings of his most renowned essay, ‘The Ontology of the Photographic Image’.
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. Peter Matthews. 18 April 2018.
Mar 14, 2024 · In this early textbook laying out film theory as a field, the chapter on Bazin positions him on the side of “realist theories” and in opposition to the “formative tradition.” He is differentiated from Kracauer through his views of cinema’s raw material (tracings of reality), its way of manipulating that material, and its purposes.
Jan 30, 2020 · By refusing to reshape the world according to an a priori thesis, Bazin’s idea of an anti-anthropocentric cinema seeks surprise, dialogue, risk, and experiment. Keywords: anthropocentric, anti-anthropocentric, anthropomorphic, realism, neorealism, perception, cognition, hallucination.
Bazin s work is the currency of a simplistic version of his ideas, what. Dudley Andrew and Hervé Joubert-Laurencin have called 'Bazinism'.4 Essentially, 'Bazinism' reduces Bazin's work to four elements: a realist. ontology, the 'myth of total cinema', a prescriptive aesthetics and auteur theory.
