André Bazin's Film Theory Art, Science, Religion

by Dalle Vacche, Angela

• ISBN13: 9780190067304
• ISBN10: 0190067306
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780190067328
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2020-01-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Angela Dalle Vacche is Professor of Cinema Studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. She has written extensively on the representation of history in film; on Italian women and early cinema; on intermediality and color. She is the author or editor of such works as Film, Art, New Media: Museum without Walls? (2012) and Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Cinema (2008), and is currently developing a book on African cinema.

Table of Contents

Preface & Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Soul of Cinema
The Structure of the Book
Conceptual Key Words
Cinema's Special Eye
Lady in the Lake
Cinema as Mind-Machine

Art
A Christological Ontology
Impure Cinema
Pure Cinema
The Postwar Art Documentary
Painting as Object, Cinema as Event
Frame and Screen
The Objects of Still Life and the Camera Lens as Object
From Painting to Biology

Science
Darwin and Bergson
Evocative Affinities
Bergson, Einstein, Heisenberg
Geometry and the Snowflake
Mathematics and the Policier
Miraculous Mathematics
Neorealism and Calculus..
Michael Faraday

Religion
Immanence and the Supernatural
Catholics and Communists
Taking Risks
Looking at Oneself from the Outside
Charlot and Cabiria
Saint Sulpice and Max Ophuls
Robert Delannoy's Religious Adaptations
Bazin's Ontology, Bresson's Stylistics

Epilogue: Wind and Dust
Anti-Anthropocentric Anthropocosmomorphism
The Wild Grass of Saintonge

Bibliography: Primary and Secondary Sources
Primary Sources: Articles by André Bazin, cited in each chapter
Primary Sources: Compilations of essays by André Bazin
Secondary Sources

Index of Names and Films
List of Illustrations