Prologue: the target of film theory
The camera searching in the world
Is a camera essential?
The Cahiers axiom
Tracing Bazin's trace
Images contested today
The editor's discovery of form
Bazin's forerunners
Documentaries in the cauldron of history
The Cahiers line
Pursuing cinema in the twenty-first century
The projector as spectator's searchlight
The power of projection
Opening the screen's dimensions
Frame as threshold
Writing out of the frame
The evolution of the subjects of cinema
Modern film: between classic and avant-garde
The ontogeny of cinema
Credits and auteurs: an ecology of adaptation
Fidelity: the economy of adaptation.
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What cinema is! : Bazin's quest and its charge by Dudley Andrew. ISBN 9781405107600. Published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
