AndrDe Bazin's impact on film art, as theorist and critic, is widely considered to be greater than that of any single director, actor, or producer. He is credited with almost single-handedly establishing the study of film as an accepted intellectual pursuit, as well as with being the spiritual father of the French New Wave. Unlike nearly all the other authors of major film theories, he was a working or practical critic who wrote regularly about individual films. Bazin at Work represents the first collection in English of disparate writings of Bazin'ssince the appearance of the second volume of What Is Cinema? in 1971. It includes work from, among other places, Cahiers le cinema (which he founded and which is the most influential single critical periodical in the history of the cinema) and Esprit . He addresses film makers including Rossellini, Eisenstein, Pagnol, and Capra and well-known films including La Strada , Citizen Kane , Scarface , and The Bridge on the River Kwai .