About the book: 1972 / “What is cinema?” Andre Bazin is an absolute classic of film criticism and film studies. Bazin was one of the first to conceptualize cinema as a separate art distinct from theater, photography, etc. He put forward the now “banal” idea that cinema is the art of the film director (in the sense of the film director - the creator of the film). He is the author of many other theoretical calculations and apt and valuable criticisms. Bazin was a Catholic, his worldview was shaped by Christian humanism and personalism (Mounier primarily). Related to this is Bazin’s idea of ​​the religious origins of art and cinema in particular, his ontology of cinema, as well as his critical reviews and the very choice of films to be analyzed. Thus, after reading “What is Cinema” by Bazin, you will read one of the main, if not the main, book about cinema in general, and, among other things, you will see how a Christian can look at cinema. Predaniye.ru is the largest Orthodox multimedia archive on the RuNet: lectures, speeches, films, audiobooks and books for reading on electronic devices; freely available for everyone.