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- Page 7 and 8: FOREWORDby Jean RenDirIN THE DAYS w
- Page 9: CONTENTSIntroduction 1The Ontology
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What Is Cinema? 1morality (the fabl
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two objects, say the star and a tig
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'" In the same way, apparently, Rin
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What Is Cinema?If one forced onesel
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52.~'~JWhat Is Cinema?th~ play, i
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What Is Cinema?the poetic atmospher
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What Is Cinema?evolution is in no s
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W hat Is Cinema?1one of the masterp
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JWhat Is Cinema?,"tum, is but a bre
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What Is Cinema?film-makers continue
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What Is Cinema?most logically along
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What Is Cinema?and- catering to a r
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What Is Cinema?proper to it is requ
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What Is Cinema?is· capable of effe
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jW hat Is Cinema?sufficiently well-
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~VhatIs Cinema?but simply that in t
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"THEATER AND CINEMAPart OneWHILE CR
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What Is Cinema?,Little Foxes, lock,
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1IV hat Is Cinema?think of a burles
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What Is Cinema?ater, we must conced
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What Is Cinema? 1probability eclips
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What Is Cinema?miming of the cast f
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What Is Cinema?Henry V that the fil
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f~rest. So really his tree still de
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What Is Cinema?be the glass of milk
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,of "canned Utheater, whether it is
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in bad faith-or considered inexplic
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,;i'What Is Cinema?theater Moliere
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. These views shed a new light on t
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,W hat Is Cinema?formance. The thea
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What Is Cinema?its nature and funct
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,other than the human ~ou\. Enclose
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,The Screen and the Realism of Spac
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~YhatIs Cinema?pockmarks on Bishop
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those things which "make theater Hb
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I pass through them unseen, reJOlcm
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of form. If the cinema is a major a
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,the place abandoned long ago by th
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1What Is Cinema?Shakespeare-the mos
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trag~dy. There. the handicap we suf
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What Is Cinema?come to the cinema o
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First embarrassed, then irritated b
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What Is Cinema?wall and as he talke
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the revenge and give it its effecti
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What Is Cinema?form of aesthetic ab
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What Is Cinema?accidental could hap
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So, probably for the first time, th
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T~e technique of Bressonts directio
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eality, a "cold aesthetic fact." It
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What Is Cinema?tween fidelity and c
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CHARLIE CHAPLINCharlie is a Mythica
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Jt'hat Is Cinema?stops every time h
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What Is Cinema?furthermore supremel
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which we are plunged and which, for
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What Is Cinema?the stairway. Subjec
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CINEMA AND EXPLORATIONIN HIS little
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What Is Cinema?expedi~ions their st
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Antarct~c. Here is a film so lavish
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another kind of reporting, where th
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What Is Cinema?never fe~l truly sat
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PAINTING AND CINEMAFILMS ABOUT pain
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W hat Is Cinema?oriented ~o to spea
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painting. Th~nks to the cinema and
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NOTES
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What Is Cinema?led ear.ly viewers o
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What Is Cinema?p. 134, Ii •••
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INDEXAdventurer, Tht, 146 if.Afriqu
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Hugo, Victor, 53, 132Hytier, Jean,
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Thevcnot, Jean, 154Thomas Garner, 6