André Bazin was a well-known, celebrated and influential French film critic and film philosopher. His writing journey started about film in 1943 and he was the co-founder of the popular film magazine Cahiers du cinéma in the year 1951, alongside Joseph-Marie Lo Duca and Jacques Doniol-Valcroze.
He used his term presence to describe the moviegoer's sense that he is within the same spatial/temporal continuum as the picture on the screen.
