André Bazin film | Performing Arts Books sku-459365598

André Bazin on Adaptation: Cinema's Literary Imagination, Edition 1, is a hardcover in Performing Arts Books, sku-459365598. Adaptation was central to Bazin's lifelong question, “What is cinema?” By placing films alongside literature, he examined the aesthetic and sociological qualities of each medium and developed a modern conception of cinema influenced by the novel.

The collection presents the work of a film and cultural critic described as one of the twentieth century's greatest. Curated and introduced by film scholar Dudley Andrew, it opens with essays showing Bazin's film theory in action.

Reviews follow of films adapted from novels by Conrad, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Colette, Sagan and Duras, as well as nineteenth-century works by Bronte, Melville, Tolstoy, Balzac, Hugo, Zola and Stendhal. Across two hundred and fifty years of French fiction, Bazin considers what adaptation means for culture, literature and cinema.

The volume addresses literary adaptation, authorship, classical film theory, French film history and Bazin's criticism.