Andr? Bazin, often dubbed the father of the French New Wave, has had an immense impact on film art. He is credited with almost single-handedly establishing the study of film as an accepted intellectual pursuit. The journal that he founded in 1951, Cahiers du Cin?ma, remains the most influential archive of cinema criticism. He remains one of the most read, most studied, and most engaging figures ever to have written about film. The last few years have witnessed a massive resurgence of interest in Bazin among critics, scholars, and students of every persuasion. His writings, a mainstay of film theory courses, are now finding a place on the syllabi of core courses in film history, criticism, and appreciation. Andrew's intellectual biography is a landmark in film scholarship.

Preface to Revised Edition: The Second Life of Andre Bazin
Foreword by Francois Truffaut
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Formative Years
Chapter 2 The War Years
Chapter 3 Birth of a Critic
Chapter 4 The Liberation and the Animation of a Culture
Chapter 5 The Politics and Aesthetics of Film
Chapter 6 Cahiers du Cinema and the Extension of a Theory
Chapter 7 The End of a Career
Appendix: Andre Bazin from 1945 to 1950: The Time of Struggles and Consecration, by Jean-Charles Tacchella
Notes
Index

Dudley Andrew is an Officier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres (French Ministry of Culture and Communication) and an inductee into the America Academy of Arts and Sciences. His numerous books include Mists of Regret and What Cinema Is!