Updated throughout, Dudley Andrew's biography of Bazin remains the definitive account of the great critic's life and his enduring legacy.

• 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!