The Catholic Critic: André Bazin on Hollywood Movies Vol 2 1948–1959

André Bazin (1918-58) is credited with being the spiritual father of the French New Wave. Among those who came under his tutelage were four who would go on to become the most renowned directors of the postwar French cinema: François Truffaut Jean-Luc Godard Jacques Rivette and Claude Chabrol.Volume 2 of The Catholic Critic: André Bazin on Hollywood Movies 1945-1958 contains for the first time in English much of Bazins penetrating writing on American cinema: on such subjects as Hollywood the western Technicolor the crime film and foreign figures (North American movies that in some cases [Queen Christina] are set in foreign countries and in other cases take place in no apparent or identifiable country at all [Rythmetic]).Volume 2 of André Bazin on Hollywood Movies 1945-1958 also features a sizable scholarly apparatus including a complete bibliography of Bazins articles on American cinema credits of the films discussed as well as filmographies of their directors and an extensive index. This collection is aimed as Bazin himself would want not only at scholars teachers and critics of film but also at educated or cultivated moviegoers and students of the cinema at all levels.