What Cinema Is!: Bazin's Quest and its Charge

"With this elegant volume, Dudley Andrew brilliantly continues his extended project of producing a historiography of film theory and of French cinema.  He has given us a book worthy of André Bazin’s  intelligence, originality, curiosity, and spirit." Eric Smoodin, University of California at Davis

"A new slant on Bazin with fresh disclosures for our era of digital media is always welcome, especially from Dudley Andrew, Bazin's foremost expositor.  Andrew's graceful and analytic prose is peppered with timely provocations of his own, starting with the Preface.  Made manifest throughout is the continuing relevance of Bazin's devotion to cinema and compassion for humanity." Edward Branigan, University of California at Santa Barbara