André Bazin 
Andre Bazin’s New Media [EPUB ebook] 

André Bazin’s writings on cinema are among the most influential reflections on the medium ever written. Even so, his critical interests ranged widely and encompassed the 'new media’ of the 1950s, including television, 3D film, Cinerama, and Cinema Scope. Fifty-seven of his reviews and essays addressing these new technologies—their artistic potential, social influence, and relationship to existing art forms—have been translated here for the first time in English with notes and an introduction by leading Bazin authority Dudley Andrew. These essays show Bazin’s astute approach to a range of visual media and the relevance of his critical thought to our own era of new media. An exciting companion to the essential
What Is Cinema? volumes,
André Bazin’s New Media is excellent for classroom use and vital for anyone interested in the history of media.

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Editor’s Note: About This Collection 

Introduction: André Bazin Meets the New Media of the 1950s 

PART ONE. THE ONTOLOGY AND LANGUAGE OF TELEVISION

1. The Aesthetic Future of Television 

2. In Quest of Télégenie 

3. Television Is Unbeatable for Live Coverage 

4. Was It Live? Preserve Our Illusions 

5. The Talking Head: Must the Commissaire Stand on His Head for TV? 

6. Television Is Neither Theater nor Cinema 

7. At the Venice Festival, TV Shares the Screen 

8. Voice-Overs on TV: Let the Animals Talk 

9. Looking at Television 

PART TWO. TELEVISION AMONG THE ARTS

10. Long Live Radio! Down with the 8th Art! 

11. A Seat at the Theater 

12. False Improvisation and 'Memory Lapses’ on TV 

13. To Serve Theater, Let Television Adopt Some Modesty 

14. Respect the Spirit of Theater First and Foremost! 

15. TV and the Disenchantment of Theater 

16. Art on Television: A Program That Loses on All Counts 

17. Reporting on Eternity: TV Visits the Musée Rodin 

PART THREE. TELEVISION AND SOCIETY

18. A Contribution to an Erotology of Television 

19. Censors, Learn to Censor 

20. You Can Now 'Descend into Yourself’ 

21. Television, Sincerity, Liberty 

22. Information or Necrophagy 

23. Television as Cultural Medium and The Sociology of Television 

24. Do We Really Need Those Serials? 

25. A Superb Clown Made Incoherent by TV 

26. TV Can Popularize without Boredom or Betrayal 

PART FOUR. TELEVISION AND CINEMA

27. Television and the Revival of Cinema 

28. Television and Cinema 

29. Is Television a Degradation for Filmmakers? 

30. Some Films Are Better on the Small Screen Than the Large 

31. Should Television Be Allowed to Chop Films to Pieces? 

32. From Small Screen to Widescreen 

33. Sacha Guitry Is Confident about TV, Just as He Was about Cinema in 1914 

34. Jean Gabin Gets TV’s 'Sour Lemon’ Prize 

35. 'The Glass Eye’ Will Reveal a New Hitchcock 

36. Hitchcock on TV 

37. Renoir and Rossellini: Two Top Recruits for Television 

38. Renoir and Rossellini Debut on TV 

39. Cinema and Television: An Interview with Jean Renoir and Roberto Rossellini 

40. About Television: A Discussion with Marcel Moussy and André Bazin 

PART FIVE. CINERAMA AND 3D

41. New Screen Technologies 

42. Cinerama: A Bit Late 

43. Cinerama, a Disappointment 

44. Cinema in 3D and Color: Amazing! 

45. A New Stage in the Process: Math Equations for 3D 

46. Will a War in Three Dimensions Take Place? 

47. The Return of Metroscopix 

48. The House of Wax: Scare Me . . . in Depth! 

49. The Real Crime on La Rue Morgue: They Assassinated a Dimension! 

50. The 3D Revolution Did Not Take Place 

PART SIX. CINEMASCOPE

51. Will Cinema Scope Save the Cinema? 

52. Cinema Scope and Neorealism 

53. Cinema Scope: The End of Montage 

54. The Trial of Cinema Scope: It Didn’t Kill the Close-Up 

55. Massacre in Cinema Scope 

56. Will Cinema Scope Bring about a Television Style in Cinema? 

PART SEVEN. FINALE

57. Is Cinema Mortal? 

Appendix: A Selective Reference Guide to 1950s French Television 

Index

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André Bazin (1918–1958) was the premier film theorist of the first century of cinema. Primarily associated with the journal Cahiers du cinéma, which he cofounded in 1951, he wrote for many other journals as well. Editor and translator Dudley Andrew is R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale University. His books include The Major Film Theories, Concepts in Film Theory, André Bazin, Film in the Aura of Art, Sansho Dayu, Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film, and Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture.