Bazin

[Mathieu Capel]

Thank you all for your answers.
I shall wait until *Opening Bazin* is available....

Mathieu

2011/3/9 <mjraine at uchicago.edu>

> >________________
> >Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 10:23:23 +0100
> >From: Mathieu Capel <mathieucapel at gmail.com>
> >Subject: Bazin in Japan
> >To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> >
> >   Dear Kinejapaners,
> >   Would someone know precisely since when André Bazin
> >   were known in Japan ? The oldest reference I could
> >   get is from Iwasaki Akira's Gendai Nihon  no Eiga,
> >   published in 1958, where he gave account of Bazin's
> >   "La leçon de style du cinéma japonais". But, by
> >   that time, were his texts about Italian neorealism
> >   known by critics or cinematographers ?
> >   Many thanks,
> >   Mathieu Capel
> >   Paris
> >
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> >   Mathieu Capel
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> >   mathieucapel at gmail.com
>
> I second Ryan's recommendation of Nozaki Kan's essay. I don't know if he
> mentions them but I've seen some earlier mentions of Bazin in Japanese film
> journalism, all of them trivial. I haven't seen the the taidan on Rene
> Clement that Mark refers to (Okada met Bazin??) but before he published the
> translation from What is Cinema Okada announced Bazin's death in Kinema
> junpo in February 1959, and referred to him more extensively in an article
> on Truffaut in November of that year. Okada was clearly sympathetic to Bazin
> (in 1966 he said Bazin was his favorite critic) and even before Bazin was
> translated there were probably others who were reading him in the original.
> At the time, I think Alexandre Astruc's essay on the "camera-stylo"
> (published in France in 1948 but not widely discussed in Japan until 10
> years later) was more significant, perhaps because Astruc was already known
> as a filmmaker.
>
> Michael
>



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