Critical Review of Andre Bazin Rudolf Arnheim Articles

This critical review will focus on the articles of Andre Bazin [What is cinema?] (1945) and Rudolf Arnheim [From Film as Art: the complete film] (1933). Through a close reading of both articles, I intend to evaluate and compare the different concepts of cinematography based on the two different film critics’ articles from a critical point of view. These two articles highlight the same topic from different perspectives with regards to cinema and art, what they have in common and how each writer keeps the ideology of cinema being a piece of art. Do both critics share common values and principles in relation to what cinema means to them or do they differentiate completely with respect to their insights of `What is cinema` and what is `The complete film`? Both articles are engaging as they offer a wide outlook at how cinema is critically seen and perceived by Bazin and Arnheim. Looking at Bazin`s ideology of cinema as an individual in `What is cinema?: The ontology of the photographic image` (2004), Bazin accentuates and concentrates throughout his article primarily on art and photography supporting his statements from a historical view based on cinema: `If the plastic arts were put under psychoanalysis, the practice of embalming the dead might turn out to be a fundamental factor in their creation` (p 166, 1945). Here Bazin describes the embalming of the mummies in Ancient Egypt to put emphasis on the significance of his belief that cinema is art and that the artistic values inShow MoreRelatedMetz Film Language a Semiotics of the Cinema PDF100902 Words   |  316 Pagestranslates by pigeon-holing (p. 35). 1990 Preface This book is divided into four sections, and it groups ten chapters corresponding to twelve previously published articles. The disparity between ten and twelve is caused by the fact that Chapter 5 was condensed out of three separate articles. As the title indicates, the articles included in this volume have been selected exclusively from the author s writings on cinematographic problems.* Since this is, therefore, a collection, I have not tried