What Is Cinema? (Volume II)

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. Foreword ......Page 7 Contents ......Page 11 Translator's Introduction ......Page 13 An Aesthetic of Reality: Neorealism ......Page 27 La Terra Trema ......Page 53 Bicycle Thief ......Page 59 De Sica: Metteur en Scène ......Page 73 Umberto D: A Great Work ......Page 91 "Cabiria": The Voyage to the End of Neorealism ......Page 95 In Defense of Rosselini ......Page 105 The Myth of Monsieur Verdoux ......Page 114 The Grandeur of "Limelight" ......Page 140 The Western: Or the American Film par Excellence ......Page 152 The Evolution of the Western ......Page 161 Entomology of the Pin-Up girl ......Page 170 The Outlaw ......Page 175 Marginal Notes on "Eroticism in the Cinema" ......Page 181 The Destiny of Jean Gabin ......Page 188 Sources and Translator's Notes ......Page 191 Index ......Page 207