What is cinema?, Vol. 2

V.1: Foreword / By Jean Renoir -- Introduction -- The Ontology Of The Photographic Image -- The Myth Of Total Cinema -- The Evolution Of The Language Of Cinema -- The Virtues And Limitations Of Montage -- In Defense Of Mixed Cinema -- Theater And Cinema -- Le Journal D'un Curé De Campagne And The Stylistics Of Robert Bresson -- Charlie Chaplin -- Cinema And Exploration -- Painting And Cinema -- V. 2: Foreword / By François Truffaut -- Translator's Introduction -- An Aesthetic Of Reality: Cinematic Realism And The Italian School Of The Liberation -- La Terra Trema -- Bicycle Thief -- De Sica: Metteur En Scène -- Umberto D: A Great Work -- Cabiria: The Voyage To The End Of Neorealism -- In Defense Of Rossellini -- The Myth Of Monsieur Verdoux -- Limelight, Or The Death Of Molière -- The Grandeur Of Limelight -- The Western, Or The American Film Par Excellence -- The Evolution Of The Western -- Entomology Of The Pin-up Girl -- The Outlaw -- Marginal Notes On Eroticism In The Cinema -- The Destiny Of Jean Gabin. Essays Selected And Translated By Hugh Gray. Translation Of Selections From Qu'est-ce Que Le Cinéma? Includes Bibliographical References. Frontmatter Translator's Introduction (page 1) An Aesthetic of Reality: Cinematic Realism and the Italian School of the Liberation (page 16) La Terra Trema (page 41) Bicycle Thief (page 47) De Sica: Metteur en Scène (page 61) Umberto D: A Great Work (page 79) Cabiria: The Voyage to the End of Neorealism (page 83) In Defense of Rossellini (page 93) The Myth of Monsieur Verdoux (page 102) Limelight, or the Death of Molère (page 124) The Grandeur of Limelight (page 128) The Western, or the American Film par excellence (page 140) The Evolution of the Western (page 149) Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl (page 158) The Outlaw (page 163) Marginal Notes on Eroticism in the Cinema (page 169) The Destiny of Jean Gabin (page 176) Notes (page 179) Index (page 195)