What is it about?
André Bazin was a major French critic who wrote for a mainstream daily newspaper after the Second World War. He defended strongly the contemporary French film production.
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Why is it important?
The French film production of the postwar period is largely ignored and despised by most French critics and historians. André Bazin is usually but wrongly considered as a representative of the Cahiers du cinema's position, which favored Hollywood film against French film of the period.
Perspectives
This study is an attempt to make visible discourses which proposed an other vision of French film than the dominant one today.
Genevieve Sellier
Universite Bordeaux Montaigne
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This page is a summary of: André Bazin, Film Critic for Le Parisien libéré (1944–1958): An Enlightened Defender of French Cinema, Paragraph, March 2013, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/para.2013.0081.
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