Subvention -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editor's Note: About This Collection -- Introduction: André Bazin Meets the New Media of the 1950s -- Part One. The Ontology and Language of Television -- 1. The Aesthetic Future of Television -- 2. In Quest of Télégenie -- 3. Television Is Unbeatable for Live Coverage -- 4. Was It Live? Preserve Our Illusions! -- 5. The Talking Head: Must the Commissaire Stand on His Head for TV? -- 6. Television Is Neither Theater nor Cinema -- 7. At the Venice Film Festival, TV Shares the Screen -- 8. Voice-Overs on TV: Let the Animals Talk -- 9. Looking at Television -- Part Two. Television among the Arts -- 10. Long Live Radio! Down with the 8th Art! -- 11. A Seat at the Theater -- 12. False Improvisation and "Memory Lapses" on TV -- 13. To Serve Theater, Let Television Adopt Some Modesty -- 14. Respect the Spirit of Theater First and Foremost! -- 15. TV and the Disenchantment of Theater -- 16. Art on Television: A Program That Loses on All Counts -- 17. Reporting on Eternity: TV Visits the Musée Rodin -- Part Three. Television and Society -- 18. A Contribution to an Erotologie of Television -- 19. Censors, Learn to Censor -- 20. You Can Now "Descend into Yourself" -- 21. Television, Sincerity, Liberty -- 22. Information or Necrophagy -- 23. Television as Cultural Medium and The Sociology of Television -- 24. Do We Really Need Those Serials? -- 25. A Superb Clown Made Incoherent by TV -- 26. TV Can Popularize without Boredom or Betrayal -- Part Four. Television and Cinema -- 27. Television and the Revival of Cinema -- 28. Television and Cinema -- 29. Is Television a Degradation for Filmmakers? -- 30. Some Films Are Better on the Small Screen Than the Large -- 31. Should Television Be Allowed to Chop Films to Pieces? -- 32. From Small Screen to Widescreen.

33. Sacha Guitry Is Confident about TV, Just as He Was about Cinema in 1914 -- 34. Jean Gabin Gets TV's "Sour Lemon" Prize -- 35. "The Glass Eye" Will Reveal a New Hitchcock -- 36. Hitchcock on TV -- 37. Renoir and Rossellini: Two Top Recruits for Television -- 38. Renoir and Rossellini Debut on TV -- 39. Cinema and Television: An Interview with Jean Renoir and Roberto Rossellini -- 40. About Television: A Discussion with Marcel Moussy and André Bazin -- Part Five. Cinerama and 3D -- 41. New Screen Technologies -- 42. Cinerama: A Bit Late -- 43. Cinerama, a Disappointment -- 44. Cinema in 3D and Color: Amazing! -- 45. A New Stage in the Process: Math Equations for 3D -- 46. Will a War in Three Dimensions Take Place? -- 47. The Return of Metroscopix -- 48. The House of Wax: Scare Me . . . in Depth! -- 49. The Real Crime on La Rue Morgue: They Assassinated a Dimension! -- 50. The 3D Revolution Did Not Take Place -- Part Six. CinemaScope -- 51. Will CinemaScope Save the Cinema? -- 52. CinemaScope and Neorealism -- 53. CinemaScope: The End of Montage -- 54. The Trial of CinemaScope: It Didn't Kill the Close-Up -- 55. Massacre in CinemaScope -- 56. Will CinemaScope Bring about a Television Style in Cinema? -- Part Seven. Finale -- 57. Is Cinema Mortal? -- Appendix: A Selective Reference Guide to 1950s French Television -- Index.