cineast

A filmmaker ( French cinéaste ), more rarely cinephile is an admirer of the film art and connoisseurs of film history and the artistic qualities of the cinema . The film buff differs from the film consumer or film fan in that he is interested in a film discourse that goes beyond the pure entertainment value of the film. This is reflected in reading film magazines or attending film festivals and events in film clubs and municipal cinemas .

Concept and history

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The French word cinéaste was originally invented by Louis Delluc around 1920 to mark the difference between commercial cinema and a cinema that claims to be art. A cineast was a filmmaker who was familiar with the history of forms and motifs in the cinema and who knew how to express them in his films. In French, cinéaste still refers to a film director today . At that time, the transitions to film recipients were sometimes fluid: early film enthusiasts like Jean Vigo founded film clubs before they became directors themselves, or, like Henri Langlois , dedicated themselves to the rescue and archiving of films, from which the Cinémathèque française emerged . The film critic André Bazin , who was active in the film club movement, had a major influence on the cinematic film culture of the post-war period in France . Some of his students became film critics and later directors of the Nouvelle Vague , such as Jean-Luc Godard and Éric Rohmer .

With the academization of the film discourse and the professionalization of the work of cinematheques , the classic, not merely receptive type of cineastes has largely disappeared.

literature

Wiktionary: Cineast  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Antoine de Baeque: La cinéphilie: Invention d'un regard, histoire d'une culture 1944–1968 . Broché, 2003. As paperback by Hachette (2005).

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Hans J. Wulff: Cineast / Cineasmus . In: Lexikon der Filmbegriffe, edited by Hans. J. Wulff and Theo Bender
2. ↑ Cineast ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the glossary of the German Film Academy . Last changed on December 20, 2007.