What Cinema Is! (Blackwell Manifestos) [1 ed.] 1405107596, 9781405107594, 9781405107600, 140510760X

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What Cinema Is!

What Cinema Is! Bazin's Quest and its Charge Dudley Andrew

iWILEY- BLACKWELL A John Wiley &

Sons, Ltd, Publication

This edition irst published 2010 n0-12, n3-14, 117, n9, 131, 138-9

In the Mood for Love 90 In the Realm of the Senses 89-90 index and indexicality see trace Internet see computers

The Magn iicent A m bersons 100-1, n6 Magny, Claude-Edmonde 37, n3, 130

Les Maitres fous 70-5, 121-2 Malick, Terrence 135 Mallarme, Stephane n2, 139 Malraux, Andre xiv, 14, 19, 31-3,

Japanese cinema 103, n4, 133-5

La ]etee 76 Jeunet, Jean-Pierre xxiv, 19-20, 22-4, 28n, 49, 54, 77

see also A m elie Jia, Zhang-ke 5, 52, 57-60, 67

see also Still Life; The World

Joyce, James 7, no

Jules and jim Uules et ]im) 18-20, 24, 92

36-9, 40-2, 55, 63n, 87, 99, 108, 130, 142n, 144n

Espoir 39, 63n, 99, 142n Man 's Fa te (La Con dition humaine) 31-3, 36 "Sketch for a Psychology of Cinema" xiv, 14, 31-3, 87 Manovich, Lev xviii, 83, 96n Man Ray 2, 100, 102 Marker, Chris 47, 64n, 74, 76, 92-3, 95n

Kapo 24

Masina, Giulietta xxi

Keathley, Christian 19, 28n

metaphor 35, 37, 40, 46, 91, 120

Kiarostami, Abbas 17, 52

see also igure

Kuhn, Annette 5

Michelson, Annette no

Lang, Fritz 108, 1 43n

Le Million 23 Les Miserables (various versions)

Last Year a t Marienbad (L 'A n nee dern iere a Marienbad) 90, 93,

Mizoguchi, Kenj i 133-5, 144n

109

128-9 modern cinema n, 17, 38, 44, 47, 6o,

Lastra, James 24

66-7, 76, 78, 87, 92, 96n, 98-9,

Leaud, Jean-Pierre xix-xxii, xxiv

102-3, 107-10, n2, 120, 122, 131,

Leenhardt, Roger 31, 34-7, 40-1, 52, 55, n5

Letter from an Unknown Woman 88-9

Lettrists 102, 104, 141n

144n modernity (includes modernism) xix, 14, 36-7, 6m, 67, 85, 103, 105, 107-10, n2, 134> 137

Moi un noir 121

Index Mondzain, Marie-Jose 1 6 , 27n, 136-7, 139 montage 1 5 , 32-4, 45, 48-9 , 62n, 8 1, 8 5 Moreau, Jeanne 19-20 Morin, Edgar xiii, xiv, viii, 29, 30, 6m Mungiu, Cristian 53-6

see a lso 4 Mon ths, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days

La Poin te Co urte 1 0 6 - 7 postmodern c i n e m a 67, 86, 143n presence see absence/presence

The Promise (China) 57-8 Racine, Jean 103, 1 1 7 Radiguet, Raymond 1 1 8 , 127 randomness see happenstance

museum 2, 74, 78, 8 6 , 1 0 2 , 105, 1 24, 133

Ray, Nicholas 120, 123

myth 113, 128-9

real time 51-9, 87 realism ( c i nematic) xx,

Nancy, Jean-Luc 139

Na nook of the North xviii-xix narration 49, 54, 56, 58, 93, 121, 140 neorealism 17, 40, 64n, 99, 104-7, 110, 113, 121, 1 23, 133 new media see computers New Wave xvi, xix, xxii-xxiv, 5, 17-19, 24, 28n, 98, 1 05- 6

Nigh t and Fog (Nu i t e t b ro u il/a rd) 45-8, 93

The Nigh ts of Cabiria ( L e No tti di Cabiria) xxi

1 51

v,

5 , 8 -10,

36-41, 43, 56 , 83, 1 1 0 - 17, 130 - 1 , 138-41 reality 2-4, 6 , 8 , 13, 1 8-24, 30-3, 38, 40-1, 43-5, 5 1 , 6 1 , 69-70, 75-9, So , 85, 93-4, 115, 130, 138 religion 6 m , 71, 112, 133-4, 136, 139

see a lso sacred Renoir, Jean 7-8, 21, 42, 66, 83, 92, 99, 103, 107, 110, 1 1 9 , 122

see a lso R u les of the Ga me Renoir, Pierre-Auguste 20 -1, 7 7 Resistance, t h e 1 1 , 38, 4 3 , 9 9 - 1 0 0 Resnais, A l a i n 43, 4 5 - 6 , 4 7 , 48, 90,

Objectf 48-49 see Biarritz festival Once Upo n a Time, Cinema

92-3, 108-9, 142n

see also Hiroshima Mon A m o ur;

(Nassereddin Shah, A ctor-e

Last Year at Marienbad; Nigh t

Cinema) So, 84

a n d Fo; Tou te fa memoire du

ontogeny 110-13, 131

monde Reynaud,

E mile

1

A Page of Madness 115

Ricoeur, Paul 9 1 - 2 , 1 1 2 , 114, 140

Palni, Dominique 109

Rivette, Jacques 4 , 28n, 44, 64n, 78,

Painleve, Jean xvi, 142n

101, 107, 1 0 9

Paisa 39, 43, 101

Robbe-Grillet, A l a i n 93, 1 3 0

Paris 1900 xvi, 33

Rohmer, E r i c 4 , 7-9, 24, 92, 95n,

Photography 8 , 29, 35, 37, 38, 6m, 67, 78-9

see a lso Bazin, "Ontology" essay Play Time 23 plot ( includes story) xx, 10, 22-3, 32, 43-4, 50, 54, 59, 76-7, 9 1 , 117, 125 , 127, 129, 131, 135

101-2, 1 0 9 , 1 1 1 , 115-16

Romeo and juliet (1968) 132-3 Rosen, Philip 3, 145n Rossellini, Roberto 5 , 10, 39, 40, 43-4, 64n, 78, 98, I03, 1 0 5 - 8 , 110, 121-3

see also Paisa; S tro mboli; Voyage to Italy

1 52

Index

Rouch, Jean 35, 70-5, 950, 107, 121-2, 142n

Rules of the Game (La Rgle du jeu) 7-8, 22, 98-100

television xiv, 9, 16, 68, 78, 87-8, 94, 136

temporaliy 6, 15-17, 34-5, 37-8, 40, 46-7, 55, 6o, 77, 87-8, 107, 122, 144n

sacred 5, 71, 74-5, 90, 134-5

see aso religion Sansho Dayu 135 Sartre, Jean-Paul 9, 11-15, 103-4, 120, 123

L'imaginaire 12-13 Sanders, George 10, 44 Schwartz, Lois-Georges 15, 25n

screen 2-3, 8, 10, 14, 18-19, 25, 32, 34,

37. 38, 40-2, 54· 58-61, 68-]0, 75 . 77-81, 83-6, 116, 123-7. 139

aesthetics and psychology of xi, 15-16, 21, 26n, 41, 73-6, so-s,

Toute la memoire du monde 93

trace 9, 11, 15, 22, 25, 37, 59, 69, 90, 93 . 124, 139-40 Trufaut, Fran�ois xix-xi, xxiv, 4, 17-20, 22, 28n, 44, 92, 101, 109, 11]-22 "Une certaine tendance du cinema ran�ais" 117-22

see aso The 400 Blows; Jules and Jim Umberto D. 41, 54 Utamaro and his Five Women 134-5

91-4 etmology and deinitions of 82-3, 87, 96n in the moie theater xvi, 6, 34, 66, 68, 74· ]6, 87 in museums and on stage 86, 960

Sept Ans du cinema ranfais 104, 117, 143n

Shadows 124

Varda, Agnes 24, 47, 105-7, 14m

see also Cleo rom 5 to . La Pointe Courte Vedres, Nicole 33 Venuti, Lawrence 131-2 Vigo, Jean 41, 100

Voyage to Italy ( Viagio in ltalia) 10, 44-], ]8, 106-7

Shakespeare, William 132, 134, 139 Stendhal 118, 120

Still Lfe (Sanxia Haoren) 57-9 Stroheim, Erich von 66, 110

Waking Lfe 6-7

Welles, Orson 42, 83, 99, 101, 103-4, 107, 116, 122

Stromboli 121-2 Summer with Monika (Sommaren med Monika) xi

Western vi, 108

surrealism 14-15, 19, 85-6, 950,

Wold War II 15, 29, 38-9, 66, 78,

104, 123

Why We Fight 33 The World 59-60 128-9

suture 82-4, 96n Zahedi, Caveh 6-7 Tati, Jacques 23, 119

Zhang, Yimou 57

Tautou, Audrey xiv, 20

Zielinski, Siegfried xiv-xv, vii

see also Amelie

Zola, Emile 118, 126