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Author:   André Bazin ,  Dudley Andrew ,  Natasa Durovicova ,  Deborah Glassman
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
ISBN:  

9780520399426

ISBN 10:   0520399420
Pages:   410
Publication Date:   07 April 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents   Acknowledgments        Introduction: Exploring Bazin on Documentary             PART ONE. FILMS OF EXPLORATION   1. The Evolution of the Exploration Film        2. Kon-Tiki; The Grandeur and Servitude of Filmed Reportage          3. Scott of the Antarctic: Ice Without Eskimos           4. Le Monde de silence (dir. Jacques Cousteau)         5. A Terrific Program: Annapurna, Water Birds, Le Grand Méliès      6. Spiritual Adventures: Naufragé volontaire and La Forêt sacrée     7. La Forêt sacrée (The sacred forest) 8. Iawa: Man, the Unknown   9. Now Showing: Lost Continent        10. Lost Continent      11. A Mock Documentary: Lost Continent     12. Naked Amazon, “Dressed Up” Just a Bit   13. Empire in the Sun 14. The Last Paradise  15. Will Italian Cinema Abandon . . . Neorealism for Neo-exoticism?           16. The Flute and the Arrow at Cannes          17. Hunters, Learn to Hunt!    18. Paysans noirs (Black farmers)       19. A Teacher in Africa: La Plus Belle des vies  20. Les Maîtres fous (dir. Jean Rouch)   PART TWO. DOCUMENTARY SUBJECTS           A. Environment and the Humans Within It 21. Landscape in Cinema        22. The Tour de France of French Cinema      23. Farrebique, the Paradox of Realism         24. Long Live Farrebique!       25. Louisiana Story     26. A Great Film: Flaherty’s Louisiana Story   27. Crin Blanc (White Mane)    B. Animals in the Lead 28. The Science Film: Accidental Beauty        29. Animal Films Reveal the World of Cinema           30. The Great Adventure        31. The Perils of Perri 32. In the Sands of Central Asia, an Admirable Documentary           33. Pity for the Animals          34. Toro: A Revolution in Realism       35. Afternoon of the Bulls: Ninety Minutes of Truth 36. Death Every Afternoon: La Course de taureaux     C. The Extraordinary Within the Ordinary 37. Here’s Proof That the Short Is a Spectacle           38. Sports Reporting in Televised News         39. Winter Olympics: Skiing and Cinema       40. Soviet Documentaries: In the Circus Arena and Whaling in the Antarctic           41. Lourdes et ses miracles     42. A Tele-Lensed Film: Little Fugitive   D. Bringing History Back to Life 43. La Bataille du rail (The Battle of the Rails)            44. La Bataille du rail and Ivan the Terrible    45. On Why We Fight: History, Documents, and Newsreels  46. A True Film: Leclerc           47. In Search of Lost Time: Paris 1900            48. Clemenceau by Clemenceau        49. André Gide, Alive and Well!         50. Hôtel des Invalides (dir. Georges Franju)    E. The New French Documentary 51. Statues Always Die Twice (dir. Alain Resnais and Chris Marker)  52. Nuit et brouillard (Night and Fog, dir. Alain Resnais)       53. En liberté sur les routes d’URSS and Chris Marker’s Dimanche à Pékin  54. Lettre de Sibérie (dir. Chris Marker)         55. Lettre de Sibérie in a New Style: The “Documented Essay”   F. Documentary at the Edge: Art and Death 56. God, the Painter, and the Film on Art       57. Picasso, Clouzot, and Metamorphosis      58. Le Mystère Picasso           59. Death on the Screen             G. Envoi 60. Every Film Is a Social Documentary            ADDENDUM: TWO ESSENTIAL ESSAYS TRANSLATED BY HUGH GRAY 61. Cinema and Exploration   62. Painting and Cinema           Appendix: Chronological List of Articles         Index of Film Titles      General Index

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André Bazin (1918–1958), cofounder of the renowned Cahiers du cinéma, was a supremely influential French film critic and theorist. Dudley Andrew is author of many books, including What Cinema Is! Bazin's Quest and Its Charge, and has edited several collections of writings by and about Bazin. Named a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, he is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and of Film at Yale University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Deborah Glassman has translated numerous scholarly works, including Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives and History of Structuralism, both by François Dosse. Formerly the director of the CIEE-UC film program in Paris, she has worked for decades in France, Tunisia, and other Francophone countries. Nataša Ďurovičová is a film scholar and translator who works on the history of language transfers in cinema. She recently retired from her position as house editor of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, where she also taught the program's translation workshop.   

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