Vittorio De Sica 1984 the Bicycle Thief Film Analysis & Bazin Argument Discussion

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Prompt: In his defense of the cinema, André Bazin wrote: “Only a photographic lens can give us the kind of image of the object that is capable of satisfying the deep need man [sic] has to substitute for it something more than a mere approximation, a kind of decal or transfer. The photographic image is the object itself, the object freed from the conditions of time and space that govern it. No matter how fuzzy, distorted, or discolored, no matter how lacking in documentary value the image may be, it shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.” (313) Either support or challenge Bazin’s claim and defend your position.

READ: Bazin, André, From What Is Cinema? (1958) 309-25

SCREEN: THE BICYCLE THIEF (Vittorio De Sica, 1948, 93m).

class recording : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ca0G0r8iopdIoyQlY…