Does anyone know anything about this? Caboose is launching a new translation, by Timothy Barnard, of Bazin’s What is Cinema? at SCMS Tokyo in May, and they are making some grandiose claims:
Rarely does a new translation radically alter our understanding of a thinker’s work. This is that book.
The translator’s meticulous research into Bazin’s sources has led him to a connection between the ideas of Bazin and Bertolt Brecht and to a pseudonymous article believed to have been written by Siegfried Kracauer.
from the email announcing this:
Avoiding the untold mistakes found in previous English translations, which have truly deformed Bazin’s ideas and skewed our understanding of them, Barnard renders Bazin’s writing, which sought to make his subtle theories accessible to general readers in his own day, even more accessible to today’s student.
I’m not necessarily saying I’m skeptical. Just wondering if anyone knows anything about this.
