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What Cinema Is!

ISBN: 978-1-4443-5741-7
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184 pages
September 2011, Wiley-Blackwell
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Acknowledgments.

Prologue: The Target of Film Theory.

1 The Camera Searching in the World.

Is a Camera Essential?

The Cahiers Axiom.

Tracing Bazin's Trace.

Images Contested Today.

2 The Editor's Discovery of Form.

Bazin’s Forerunners.

Documentaries in the Cauldron of History.

The Cahiers Line.

Pursuing Cinema in the Twenty-First Century.

3 The Projector as Spectator's Searchlight.

The Power of Projection.

Opening the Screen's Dimensions.

Frame as Threshold.

Writing out of the Frame.

4 The Evolution of the Subjects of Cinema.

Modern Film: Between Classic and Avant-Garde.

The Ontogeny of Cinema.

Credits and Auteurs: An Ecology of Adaptation.

Fidelity: The Economy of Adaptation.

Index.