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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 459,286 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. André Bazin is the 916th most popular writer (down from 846th in 2019), the 1,078th most popular biography from France (down from 937th in 2019) and the 142nd 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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Among writers, André Bazin ranks 916 out of 5,755. Before him are Quintus Tullius Cicero, Panait Istrati, Silius Italicus, Christoph Martin Wieland, Fatema Mernissi, and Tao Yuanming. After him are Bruce Chatwin, Herodian, Miroslav Krleža, Machado de Assis, Agathon, and Ibn al-Muqaffa'.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, André Bazin ranks 39. Before him are Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, Martin Ryle, Bertram Brockhouse, Pavlik Morozov, Birgit Nilsson, and Jerome Karle. After him are Lila Kedrova, Günther Rall, Jens Christian Skou, Ahmed Deedat, Patricio Aylwin, and Yasuhiro Nakasone. Among people deceased in 1958, André Bazin ranks 25. Before him are Rudolf von Laban, Georges Rouault, Ole Kirk Christiansen, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, Edna Purviance, and Princess Ingeborg of Denmark. After him are Ernst Heinkel, Abul Kalam Azad, Kim Tu-bong, Pál Maléter, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Alfred Weber.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Bazin ranks 1,078 out of 6,011. Before him are La Hire (1390), Henry, Count of Portugal (1066), Georges Bernanos (1888), Jean Casimir-Perier (1847), Jan Gossaert (1478), and Georges Picquart (1854). After him are Jean Gerson (1363), Alice Prin (1901), Jeanne Baret (1740), Henry II, Count of Champagne (1166), Rosa Bonheur (1822), and Pierre Schaeffer (1910).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, André Bazin ranks 142. Before him are Jacques Clément (1567), Bertran de Born (1140), Jean de La Bruyère (1645), Charles Maurras (1868), Madame de La Fayette (1634), and Georges Bernanos (1888). After him are Jules Renard (1864), Alexandra David-Néel (1868), Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838), Charles Nodier (1780), Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737), and Jean-Claude Carrière (1931).

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