
Andr? 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. Although Bazin made no films, his name has been one of the most important in French...


The first volume of What is Cinema? was simultaneously basic and complex, rigorous and open, almost the Poetics of movies; and as a follow-up these newly translated essays are not a disappointment...In the excellent translations by Hugh Gray, these painstakingly structured essays...

