Jacques Aumont

Jacques Aumont (born 25 February 1942) is a French academic and writer on film theory.

Born in Avignon he initially trained as an engineer but started contributing film criticism to Cahiers du cinéma in the late 1960s.[1] He is professor emeritus at University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, and professor at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.[2]

Works

  • Translated by Lee Hildreth, Constance Penley, and Andrew Ross as Montage Eisenstein, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.
  • Translated and revised by Richard Neupert as Aesthetics of film, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992.
  • Translated as The Image, London: BFI, 1993.

References

  1. Daniel Dottorini, Aumont, Jacques, Enciclopedia del Cinema, 2003
  2. Jacques Aumont (2011). L'image. Armand Colin. ISBN 978-2-200-25421-6. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
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