Word: bazin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...auteur theory of film criticism has gone through many transformations since its initial conception. For Andre Bazin and his Cahiers du Cinema scions in the 40's and 50's, approaching a film as if it were creatively guided by a single intelligence-preferably that of the director-provided opportunities for scholarly, disciplined film thought. Just as a modern writer is judged more by an oeuvre, his body of work, than by a single masterpiece, the Cahiers critics traced continual directorial themes and motifs, evaluating the creator's relationship to his subject by the manner in which it was visually...
...aesthetics too ashamed to show its face in discussions of the novel has long held sway in theories of the cinema. Writers like Kracauer and Bazin have elaborated value systems whose central equation comes whole from the nineteenth-century bourgeois novel tradition. Godard fights alone the arts' last battle against realistic representation...
Kenji Mizoguchi's reputation is, like all tremendous artistic reputations, tremendous for off-base reasons. Mizoguchi was "discovered" by a critical school that lionized masters of the long take. Andre Bazin and his followers supposed that sequences accomplished in a single shot, and shots lasting minutes without a cut, gave an impression of greater objectivity than a style based on cutting could achieve. Events that appear within the same shot have to take place at the same time. Therefore a long-take style like Mizoguchi's must show things as they actually occur, instead of faking events...