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Jean Mitry
Jean Mitry (; 7 November 1904, Soissons, Aisne – 18 January 1988, La Garenne-Colombes) was a French film theorist, critic and filmmaker, a co-founder of France's first film society, and, in 1938, of the Cinémathèque Française.
Work.
The first lecturer of film aesthetics in France, Mitry was one of the first intellectuals responsible for taking film studies out of the era of the film club and into that of the university.
Mitry was one of few
A Semiotics of the Cinema" ()
- "The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema" ()
- "Language and Cinema" ()
- "Impersonal Enunciation, or the Place of Film" ()
References.
- Jean Mitry, "La Sémiologie en question : Language et cinéma", Paris, Cerf, 1987.