Jacques Aumont

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Jacques Aumont

Jacques Aumont (born February 25, 1942 in Avignon , France ) is a French academic . He is considered one of the founders of film studies as a university discipline.

Life

He was born in Avignon and initially trained as an engineer at the École Polytechnique and the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications . Later he went to ORTF and worked there first in the planning department. He later moved to the research department and began working at the Cahiers du cinéma at the same time .

At the beginning of the 1970s he left the ORTF and began teaching at the newly created Department of Film Studies at the University of Paris III . After a detour to Lyon, he returned to Paris in 1983, where he was later appointed full professor and stayed until his retirement in 2009. Aumont held visiting professorships at numerous universities. He was also the founder and director of the Collège d'Histoire de l'Art Cinématographique. Jacques Aumont organized lecture programs there for almost twenty years (1991–2008), most of which were subsequently published in collections. He has also sat on several film festival juries.

research

Jacques Aumont was one of the first film scholars and, together with Michel Marie, Roger Odin and Marc Vernet, campaigned for the institutional recognition of his subject at Paris III. He also fought for the rationalization of curricula and the development of research.

Aumont sees film as a "figurative art". It calls for "reflection on the specifics of cinematic design and its relationship to time, space and the world". In the history of painting in particular, he looked for the power of the image and its origins. He was interested in how and on what film reflects and how cinematic fiction works in contrast to other forms of fiction. In addition to scientific publications, Aumont worked as a film critic and editor for various magazines.

Awards

Jacques Aumont was awarded the Balzan Prize in 2019 . The committee justified its choice as follows: “For its role in establishing film studies as a university discipline. For his work in determining the concept of film aesthetics and, in particular, of cinematic imagery. For his contribution to the interpretation of the "language" of cinema and its history. "

Fonts

  • Modern? Comment le cinéma est devenu le plus singulier des arts . Paris. Cahiers du cinéma 2007.
  • Le Cinéma et la mise en scene . Paris. Nathan 2006.
  • Matières d'images . Paris. Editions Images Modernes 2005.
  • Ingmar Bergman, mes films sont l'explication de mes images . Paris. Cahiers du cinéma 2003.
  • Les Théories des cinéastes . Paris. Nathan 2002.
  • Amnésies. Fictions du cinéma d'après Jean-Luc Godard . POL 1999.
  • De l'esthétique au present . Brussels / Paris. De Boeck and Larcier 1998.
  • À quoi pensent les films . Paris. Séguier 1997.
  • Introduction à la couleur, des discours aux images . Paris. Armand Colin 1994.
  • You visage au cinéma . Paris. Éditions de l'Étoile 1992.
  • L'image . Paris. Nathan 1990.
  • L'œil interminable . Paris. Librairie Séguier 1989, 1995.
  • Montage Eisenstein . Paris. Albatros 1979, 2005.

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c d Jacques Aumont. Retrieved January 22, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Bio-bibliography (French). Retrieved January 21, 2020 (it-it).
  3. ↑ Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences | Jacques Aumont. Retrieved January 22, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Jacques Aumont - IKKM Weimar. Retrieved January 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Aumont, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Avignon