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Now you will complete our Andre Bazin reading. Before completing that, here is some brief contextualization of Bazin and his theories. 

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Andre Bazin was an important theorist in the field of film. He was a former journalist who communicated a great deal of his beliefs on objectivity into his theory. His research focus was to define cinema through theoretical articles that he wrote beginning in the 1950s. Bazin was also the co-founder of the French film magazine Cahiers du Cinema.

 

 

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conveyed his intense interest in photography and filmmaking over other art forms because of its relationship to reality and its ability to mummify time.

While reading, consider the differences that Bazin proposes between painting and photography and how this debate could be applied to filmmaking. 

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