André Bazin, the critic as thinker : American cinema from early Chaplin to the late 1950s /

"André Bazin (1918-58) is credited with almost single-handedly establishing the study of film as an accepted intellectual pursuit, as well as with being the spiritual father of the French New Wave. Among those who came under his tutelage were four who would go on to become the most renowned di...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cardullo, Bert (Traductor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rotterdam : SensePublishers, 2017.
Temas:
Bazin, André, > 1918-1958.
Motion pictures > United States > History.
Film critics > France > Biography.
Cinéma > États-Unis > Histoire.
Critiques de cinéma > France > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Entertainment & Performing Arts.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Film critics.
Motion pictures.
France.
United States.
Electronic books.
Biography
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Film Images
  • Introduction
  • I: Themes and Genres
  • Westerns and Americans
  • Howard Hughes's The Outlaw
  • A Meta-Western: Fred Zinnemann's High Noon
  • The Western, or the American Film Par Excellence
  • The Evolution of the Western
  • Brilliant Variations on Some Well-Known Notes: Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar
  • The Exemplary Beauty of Westerns: Anthony Mann's The Man from Laramie and Budd Boetticher's Seven Men from Now
  • War and Peace
  • Howard Hawks's Air Force
  • On Frank Capra's Why We Fight: History, Documentation, and the Newsreel
  • On Ambiguity: John Huston's The Red Badge of Courage
  • War Films: Richard Fleischer's Between Heaven and Hell and Anthony Mann's Men in War
  • Stanley Kramer's The Pride and the Passion
  • High Infidelity: David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Stars and Goddesses
  • Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl
  • Henry Hathaway's Niagara
  • Doll in the Flesh, Cotton on Fire: Elia Kazan's Baby Doll
  • The Death of Humphrey Bogart
  • The Question of James Dean
  • Off the Beaten Path: John Cromwell's The Goddess
  • Fugitives and Criminals
  • Howard Hawks's Scarface and the Gangster Film
  • Joseph Losey's M: Remade in the U.S.A.
  • Women in Cages: John Cromwell's Caged
  • Film through a Telephoto Lens: Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, & Ruth Orkin's The Little Fugitive
  • Sociological Routines: Philip Dunne's Ten North Frederick
  • Jean Renoir's The Woman on the Beach, The Southerner, and The Diary of a Chambermaid
  • II: Artists and Directors
  • Charles Chaplin [1889-1977]
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • The Myth of Monsieur Verdoux
  • Limelight, or the Death of Molière
  • The Grandeur of Limelight
  • Alfred Hitchcock [1899-1980]
  • On Shadow of a Doubt, Lifeboat, and Rear Window
  • Pan Shot of Hitchcock
  • Must We Believe in Hitchcock?
  • Hitchcock vs. Hitchcock
  • Erich von Stroheim [1885-1957]
  • Erich von Stroheim: Form, Uniform, and Cruelty
  • Preston Sturges [1898-1959]
  • On Sullivan's Travels
  • On The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
  • On Hail the Conquering Hero
  • On Mad Wednesday
  • Orson Welles [1915-85]
  • The Technique of Citizen Kane
  • On Welles's Othello
  • Interview with Orson Welles
  • Orson Welles Cannibalized
  • William Wyler [1902-81]
  • William Wyler, or the Jansenist of Directing
  • Film Credits (in order of discussion)
  • A Bazin Bibliography
  • Index.

Ejemplares similares