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

Montage Eisenstein, thesis, Paris: Paris 1, 1978.

Translated by Lee Hildreth, Constance Penley, and Andrew Ross as Montage Eisenstein, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.

(with A. Bergala, M. Marie and M. Vernet) Esthétique du film, Paris: Nathan, 1983.

Translated and revised by Richard Neupert as Aesthetics of film, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992.

(with Michel Marie) L'analyse des films, Paris: Nathan, 1988.
L'oeil interminable: cinéma et peinture, 1989.
L'image, Paris: Nathan, 1990.

Translated as The Image, London: BFI, 1993.

Du visage au cinéma, 1992.
Introduction à la couleur: des discours aux images, 1994.
A quoi pensent les films, 1996.
De l'esthétique au présent, 1998.
Amnésies: fictions du cinéma d'après Jean-Luc Godard, 1999.
(with Michel Marie) Dictionnaire théorique et critique du cinéma, Paris: Nathan, 2001.
Les théories des cinéastes, Paris: Nathan, 2002.
Limites de la fiction, Paris: Bayard, 2014.

References

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

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