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André Bazin

1918 - 1958

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André Bazin (French: [bazɛ̃]; 18 April 1918 – 11 November 1958) was a renowned and influential French film critic and film theorist. He started to write about film in 1943 and was a co-founder of the renowned film magazine Cahiers du cinéma in 1951, with Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca. He is notable for arguing that realism is the most important function of cinema. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André Bazin has received more than 454,931 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). André Bazin is the 1,017th most popular writer (down from 915th in 2019), the 1,156th most popular biography from France (down from 1,075th in 2019) and the 152nd most popular French Writer.

André Bazin is most famous for his contributions to the film theory of realism. He was a French philosopher and critic who was born in 1908 and died in 1958. He was one of the first critics to take cinema seriously as an art form. He believed that film should be studied as a separate art form from other art forms, and he believed that it should be analyzed through its own language.

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Notable Works

The cinema of cruelty
Performing Arts
1982
Orson Welles
1972
Le cinéma français de la libération à la nouvelle vague (1945-1958)
1983
Jean Renoir
Performing Arts
This classic in the literature of cinema represents the convergence of the three leading figures of French film: Jean Renoir, universally considered the greatest French director; André Bazin, the outstanding French film critic and theorist; and François Truffaut, the pioneer of la nouvelle vague. Bazin left this examination of Renoir's films unfinished when he died in 1958; Truffaut collected and edited the essays, and added a comprehensive filmography in which Bazin, Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, and other Cahiers du Cinéma regulars comment on the films. Here are brilliant insights into the whole of Renoir's oeuvre, from the avant-garde fantasy of La Petite Marchande d'Allumettes, through the epic humanism of Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, to the quiet grace of The River and the profound theatricality of The Golden Coach. Bazin shows why Renoir is the critical figure in the development of cinema since the silent era, and how he went beyond montage to give the art new expressive potential. Renoir's work constitutes one of the most fully and beautifully elaborated visions in contemporary art, and nowhere is this humanistic vision better illuminated than in this book.
1971
Qu'est-ce que le cinéma?
Motion pictures
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Over the past year André Bazin has had the most page views in the with 47,260 views, followed by French (18,558), and Italian (15,406). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Italian (85.48%), Serbian (74.55%), and Galician (52.45%)

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Among writers, André Bazin ranks 1,017 out of 7,302. Before him are Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Noah Gordon, William Gibson, Vasily Zhukovsky, and Thomas De Quincey. After him are August Kubizek, Mary Higgins Clark, Shūsaku Endō, Egill Skallagrímsson, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, and Guido Cavalcanti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, André Bazin ranks 51. Before him are Betty Ford, Birgit Nilsson, Günther Rall, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Paul D. Boyer, and Richard Winters. After him are Pavlik Morozov, João Goulart, Kenichi Fukui, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Rosemary Kennedy, and Anna Mani. Among people deceased in 1958, André Bazin ranks 25. Before him are Georges Rouault, Giacomo Balla, Abul Kalam Azad, Ernst Heinkel, Alfred Weber, and Princess Ingeborg of Denmark. After him are Kim Tu-bong, Tyrone Power, Edna Purviance, Petru Groza, Ole Kirk Christiansen, and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Bazin ranks 1,156 out of 6,770. Before him are Nicolas Leblanc (1742), Emmanuel Chabrier (1841), Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701), Charles I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1580), Marcel Dupré (1886), and André Maginot (1877). After him are Francis, Count of Vendôme (1470), Henry I of Navarre (1244), Theuderic II (587), André Weil (1906), Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville (1746), and Balthus (1908).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, André Bazin ranks 152. Before him are Heinrich Kramer (1430), Jean de Joinville (1224), Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780), Nicolas Chamfort (1741), Bertran de Born (1140), and Jean Giraudoux (1882). After him are Jean-Claude Carrière (1931), B. H. Liddell Hart (1895), Paulinus of Nola (354), Marcel Pagnol (1895), Michel Tournier (1924), and Paul Bourget (1852).

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