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

film theory Film theory is a set of scholarly approaches within the academic discipline of film or cinema studies that began in the 1920s by questioning the formal essential attributes of motion pictures; and that now provides conceptual frameworks for und ...

. Born in

Avignon Avignon (, ; ; oc, Avinhon, label=Provençal dialect, Provençal or , ; la, Avenio) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Vaucluse Departments of France, department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region of So ...

he initially trained as an engineer but started contributing film criticism to ''

Cahiers du cinéma ''Cahiers du Cinéma'' (, ) is a French film magazine co-founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca.Itzkoff, Dave (9 February 2009''Cahiers Du Cinéma Will Continue to Publish''The New York TimesMacnab, Ge ...

'' in the late 1960s.Daniel Dottorini
Aumont, Jacques
''Enciclopedia del Cinema'', 2003. He is professor emeritus at University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, director of studies at the

School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (french: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and ''grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The ...

, and professor at the

École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts The Beaux-Arts de Paris is a French ''grande école'' whose primary mission is to provide high-level arts education and training. This is classical and historical School of Fine Arts in France. The art school, which is part of the Paris Science ...

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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aumont, Jacques 1942 births Living people Film theorists French film critics French male writers Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3 faculty Writers from Avignon