The Innovators 1950-1960: Divining the real

Bazin's stance on "the real" in film is interesting. The artists that Brazin seems to review and associate with are of the "fine art" caliber — the author places "Hollywood's geniuses on a lower rung." The use of film as art, and the ability of film to become art does seem to have roots in realism more so than the stories that our films depict so often nowadays. Fine as art seems to have a raw connection, not objective, but subjectively pure in its not trying to be anything else that commercial film downplays. The film is art is about the artist, it ties back to him or her — not the product.