What is Cinema? Volume II

Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 0520020340 . [no discernible wear to book, some faint soiling to edges of text block; jacket has one tiny surface-nick at top edge of front panel, spine slightly tanned]. The second English-language collection of essays by Bazin, "the most important film theorist since World War II, [whose] ideas have been discussed throughout the film world and have influenced film making as well as film analysis. All [the essays] display Bazin's astonishing sensibilities at work on a wide range of subjects: from the stylistic integrity and love (truncated) he sought in neorealism, through the mythological structures he discerned in the western and in Chaplin, to playful insights on the aesthetic contributions of the Hays office to Howard Hughes' THE OUTLAW." The hardcover printing is uncommon. . (Inventory #: 24489)