Roger Leenhardt, André Bazin and the Small School of Modern Cinema and Spectatorship

Authors

  • David Oubiña Conicet/Universidad de Buenos Aires

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/452f.2021.24.14

Keywords:

Roger Leenhardt, André Bazin, film criticism, film author, Cahiers du cinema

Abstract

This article traces the links between Roger Leenhardt and André Bazin in the late 1940s and early 1950s: in that period, the articles published by both critics configure a modern notion of the filmmaker as an author. This notion will be one of the cornerstones of Cahiers du cinéma, the magazine that Bazin founded in 1951 and which would quickly become one of the inescapable references in the reflection on cinema during the second half of the century. As the new critics conceive it, the concept of a cinematographic author redefines not only the activity of the filmmaker but also the notion of work and of spectator.

Author Biography

David Oubiña, Conicet/Universidad de Buenos Aires

David Oubiña es doctor en Letras con mención en Cine (Universidad de Buenos Aires). Es investigador independiente en el CONICET y profesor en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (UBA). Ha sido visiting researcher en la University of London y visiting professor en la University of Bergen, en New York University y en la University of Berkeley. Es miembro del Consejo de Dirección de Las Ranas (arte, ensayo y traducción) y de la Revista de cine. También integra el Consejo Editorial de Caimán. Cuadernos de cine; Ñawi (Arte. Diseño. Comunicación; En la otra isla. Revista de audiovisual latinoamericano e Imagofagia (Asociación Argentina de Estudios de Cine y Audiovisual). Entre sus libros: Filmología: Ensayos con el cine (2000); El cine de Hugo Santiago (2002); Jean-Luc Godard: el pensamiento del cine (2003); Estudio crítico sobre La ciénaga, de Lucrecia Martel (2007); Una juguetería filosófica: Cine, cronofotografía y arte digital (2009) y El silencio y sus bordes. Modos de lo extremo en la literatura y el cine (2011).

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Published

2021-01-31

How to Cite

Oubiña, D. (2021). Roger Leenhardt, André Bazin and the Small School of Modern Cinema and Spectatorship. 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (24), 216–229. https://doi.org/10.1344/452f.2021.24.14

Issue

No. 24 (2021): Science Fiction, Gender, and Exclusion

Section

Miscellaneous

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