"What is Cinema?" ( Andre Bazin )

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"Andre Bazin's concept of realism varied from a mere appreciation of the medium of cinema to an ideal encompassing the
whole of cinematic imagery. on the one hand, he emphasized the reality of the photographic image with its seeming ability to "copy" the visual aspect of the world. on the other, he very nearly worshipped the ability of some films and of some film makers to generate an illusion of a reality of which the camera appears to be a neutral spectator. The former is a physical realism founded in the literal transparency of film itself, and the other a rhetorical realism based in social criticism and psychological observation. Working between these two poles, Bazin outlines a bold theory of film that in being revealing is likewise open to attack.
Fundamental to Bazin's approach is a view of cinema as.."

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