What Cinema Is!

<i>What Cinema Is!</i> offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazin’s famous question, exploring his ‘idea of cinema’ with a sweeping look back at the near century of Cinema’s phenomenal ascendancy. <ul> <li>Written by one of the foremost film scholars of our time</li> <li>Establishes cinema’s distinction from the current enthusiasm over audio-visual entertainment, without relegating cinema to a single, older mode</li> <li>Examines cinema’s institutions and its social force through the qualities of key films</li> <li>Traces the history of an idea that has made cinema supremely alive to (and in) our times</li> </ul>