Jean-Michel Frodon
Professorial Fellow
Research profile
Jean-Michel Frodon was born in Paris, 1953. He is a world-renowned journalist and film critic at weekly "Le Point" (1983-1990), "Le Monde" (1990-2003). He was editorial director of "Cahiers du Cinema" between 2003 and 2009. Since then he writes for the the website slate.fr: http://blog.slate.fr/projection-publique. He is also Member of the Editorial board and permanent writer for Caiman, Cuadernos de Cine (Spain) and founder of the thinktank « L'Exception » : http://lexception.rezo.net/ He is editor in chief of the collaborative website http://artsciencefactory.fr.
Jean-Michel Frodon is professor at Sciences Po Paris (Political Sciences Institute) and he is associated with Prof. Bruno Latour for the SPEAP project. Since September 2012 he is Professorial Fellow in Film Studies and Creative Industries at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
See also the PURE research profile.
Research students
Jean-Michel would be happy to assist and supervise postgraduate students researching subjects related to topics such as Film History, Film Crisiticm and Film Festivals.Selected publications
Jean-Michel Frodon is author and editor of many books, including
« L'âge moderne du cinéma français » (Flammarion, 1995)
« La Projection nationale » (Odile Jacob, 1998)
« Hou Hsiao-hsien » (ed., Cahiers du Cinéma, 2005)
« Conversation avec Woody Allen » (Plon, 2000)
« Print the Legend, cinéma et journalisme » (ed. Cahiers du Cinéma 2004)
« Au Sud du cinéma » (ed. Cahiers du Cinéma 2004)
« Horizon cinéma » (Cahiers du Cinéma 2005)
« Le Cinéma chinois » (Cahiers du Cinéma 2005)
« Le cinéma et la Shoah » (ed. Cahiers du Cinéma 2007)
« Cinema and the Shoah » (SUNY Press, 2010)
« Robert Bresson » (Cahiers du Cinéma 2008)
« Gilles Deleuze et les images » (co-edited with François Dosse. Cahiers du cinéma/INA 2008)
« La Critique de cinéma » (Sceren-CNDP/Cahiers du cinéma, 2008)
« Genèses », co-autor with Amos Gitai and Marie-José Sanselme (Gallimard, 2009)
« Le Cinéma d'Edward Yang » (Editions de l'éclat, 2010)
« Le Cinéma français, de la Nouvelle Vague à nos jours » (Cahiers du Cinéma, 2010)
Current research
Film History, Film Theory, Film Critcism, Film FestivalsTeaching
Jean-Michel will teach two open courses in April 2013, two hours a week each on Wednesdays and Thursdays (details to follow). Everyone will be welcome to join these seminars.
His teaching will focus on
- Cultural History of Film Festivals and Festival Films
and
- National Projection: Cinema and Nation, from the Origins to the Time of Globalisation