André Gardies

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André Gardies (born April 28, 1939 in Nîmes ) is a French writer. He has published numerous works on film studies and five novels.

Life

André Gardies spent his childhood and youth in Nîmes . Between 1956 and 1960 he attended the École Normale d'Instituteurs in his hometown and studied at the University of Montpellier . He then taught literature at the Lycée de filles near Niort and at the Lycée de la Source in Orléans .

With the implementation of a short film, "Onomotapa", in 1967 he turned from literature to film. Several other short films followed. The meeting with Alain Robbe-Grillet in 1970 marked the beginning of a period of almost 30 years of critical and theoretical reflection on film. In 1982 he published the first book dedicated to Robbe-Grillets cinema.

Between 1977 and 1985 he taught French and film studies at the University of Abidjan in Ivory Coast . After returning to France in 1985, he was appointed "Maître de conférences en études cinématographiques" at the University of Strasbourg .

After his “Thèse d'état” (a French equivalent of the post- doctoral thesis ), he became a professor of film studies at the University of Lumière-Lyon in 1990 .

On the occasion of the centenary of the invention of the cinema, Gardies participated both as a screenwriter and as a scientific expert in the creation of a CD-Rom about the Lumière brothers , "Le cinéma des Lumière" (co-produced by the CAPA agency), for which he won the 1996 Prix Roberval received.

Since 2000 he has devoted himself entirely to literary writing. He currently lives in Bernis , a small village near Nîmes. At the same time, he repeatedly goes abroad: In Quebec, Germany, Italy, Portugal, England, Burkina Faso and other countries.

Among other things, a literary project in collaboration with the German students at the Julius Maximilians University Language Center took him to Würzburg on July 6, 2011 , where he gave a public reading in the botanical garden.

Gardies is a member of the Société des Gens de Lettres and co-administrator of the “Association Autour des Ateurs en Languedoc-Roussillon”.

Film studies works

As a film professor, André Gardies has published several textbooks on film theory, including Le récit filmique (1993), L'espace au cinéma (1993) and Décrire à l'écran (1999). He specializes in the films of the novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet, about whom he has written three books: Alain Robbe-Grillet (1972), Approche du récit filmique (1980) and Le Cinéma de Robbe-Grillet (1983). Another focus of his studies was on African cinema, on which he wrote works such as Regards sur le cinéma négro-africain (1987, avec Pierre Haffner) and Cinéma d'Afrique noire francophone (1989), as well as a publication related to the One of the fundamentals of the French high school diploma exams in film studies is: Yeelen . In collaboration with other film scholars, André Gardies has published Cinéma de la modernité: films, théories (1981) Le suspens au cinéma (1994) and Le spectaculaire (1996).

bibliography

Novels

  • Derrière les ponts, 2002
  • Les années de cendres, 2005
  • Le monde de Juliette, 2006
  • Le visiteur solitaire, 2008
  • Le train sous la neige, 2011

Film studies works

  • Alain Robbe-Grillet, Seghers, "Cinéma d'aujourd'hui", 1972.
  • Cinémas de la modernité: films, théories: colloque de Cerisy, du 1er au 11 Juillet 1997, sous la direction de Dominique Château, André Gardiès, François Jost, éd. Klincksieck, 1981 (essai).
  • Approche du récit filmique, Albatros, 1980.
  • Le cinéma de Robbe-Grillet, Albatros, 1983.
  • Regards sur le cinéma négro-africain (avec Pierre Haffner), OCIC, Bruxelles, 1987.
  • Cinéma d'Afrique noire francophone; l'espace-miroir, L'Harmattan, 1989.
  • 200 mots-clés de la théorie du cinéma (avec Jean Bessalel), Cerf, "7 ° Art", 1992.
  • L'espace au cinéma, Méridiens-Klincksieck, 1993.
  • Le récit filmique, Hachette, "Contours littéraires", 1993.
  • Cinéma et théâtralité, sous la direction de Christine Hamon-Sirejols, Jacques Gerstenkorn, André Gardies, éd. Aléas, 1994 (essai).
  • Le conteur de l'ombre, essais sur la narration filmique, Aleas, Lyon, 1996.
  • Le spectaculaire, sous la direction de Christine Hamon-Sirejols, André Gardies, éd. Aléas, 1997 (essai).
  • Décrire à l'écran, Méridiens-Klincksieck / Nota Bene, Paris / Montréal, 1999.
  • Le Je à l'écran: actes du colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle, 14-21 août 1999, co-dirigé par André Gardies, Jacques Gerstenkorn, sous la direction de Jean-Pierre Esquenazi, André Gardies, éd. l'Harmattan, 2006 (essai).
  • 200 mots of clés de la théorie du cinéma, coauteurs André Gardies, Jean Bessalel, éd. Cerf, 2010 (dictionary).
  • Yeelen: Souleymane Cissé, éd. CNDC, 2011 (enseignement).

CD-ROM:

  • Le cinéma des Lumière (avec Michel Agnola et Christian Straboni), CAPA prod., RMN, Microfolie's, MACT., 1995.

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personal data
SURNAME Gardies, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Nîmes