André Bazin

Film is portrayed as the art of stimulating experiences that convey ideas, emotions and surrounding environments through the use of the mechanical and automatic recordings that reproduce reality; being both past and present. Bergson describes cinema as being directly related to the function of intellect (Deleuze, 1986:1-4). Many theorists have stressed the importance of film’s ability to represent reality and the truth that might have other wise been overlooked. This truth derives from film’s…

They labelled it the cinema de papa (old fogies cinema). They put forward and discussed many different propositions and ideas in the pages of the cahiers du cinema in the 50s. The most significant one which had the greatest influence on new wave films was la politique des auteurs (The policy of authors). Largely created by Truffaut in his famous essay a certain tendency in French Cinema he argued that a film, through the way in which its images are presented to the audience on the screen,…

With the evolution of technology rapidly increasing and becoming more and more advanced, in correlation, the accepted knowledge concerning film and media are also changing just as fast. Since the birth of the cinema and Hollywood style movies, many philosophers and theorists have shared their knowledge concerning film theory. However many theories are having to be updated and even ruled out due to the advancement in technology. For many years these theories were commonly accepted with minor…

“invaluable dramatic superiority” as the intersection of “history and cinema,” as film scholar Andre Bazin notes (60). Thus, many directors embraced the effects of cinema becoming part of daily life by creating modern warfare films, which were also very relevant to the time period. Capra’s Why We Fight was especially original in the way it was composed as the first “edited ideological documentary” (Bazin 61). Unlike other directors at the time, Capra chose to use a didactic voiceover to link…

theory is the theory of filmmaking in which the director is regarded as the key creative force in a film. Dubbed by American film critic Andrew Sarris in France during the late 1940’s, auteur theory was an outgrowth of the cinematic theories of Andre Bazin and Alexandre Astruc. This theory states that the director, who oversees all visual and audio elements of a film, is considered somewhat of an ‘author’ of a film more so than the writer of the screenplay. This means that visual elements such…

ultimately finds an outstanding balance of its themes, in particular what he describes as “[…] social myth, historical reconstruction, psychological truth and the traditional theme of the western mise-en-scène” without eventually dominating each other. (Bazin, 1967) Said balance cannot only been seen during the narrative of Stagecoach but also are mirrored in visual aspects, as well as editing, and shot. The beginning and end short scenes reflect each other, firstly the cavalry riding to bring…

the character in the film. In other words, the camera frame helps take the viewer into the world of the narrative in any film by going through the mise-en-scene. Also, when we talk about camera movement, it is important to mention the film critic André Bazin. He was one of the greatest fans of long takes which had camera movement. He also…

Classical Hollywood and neorealism are two important movements that have equally influenced the development of filmmaking. They both engage the audience into the film but their narrative conventions do differ from each other. The significance of the location and actors used differentiates the two approaches; as neorealism focuses on portraying reality by avoiding the glimmer of Hollywood stars and mise-en-scène. This allows neorealism to express the natural occurrences in life and the social…

to imprint their vision upon a film. It draws from the work of cinema enthusiasts who helped to compile ‘Cahiers du Cinema’ and argued that the director's vision should be reflected from within the films they create. Cahiers du Cinema founder, André Bazin explained that auteur theory was a way of choosing the personal factor in an artistic creation as a point of reference, and then presuppose that it would continue from one film onto the…

The silent cinema offers a treasure grove for the study of film acting. In the absence of sound, it shows performers constructing their respective characters by only using their bodies, not their voices. For this reason, silent cinema demands maximum expressiveness from actors. Rather than conveying their emotions by means of words, performers of the silent era knew how to express their feelings through gestures and facial expressions in such a manner that their feelings could be easily…