Jean Mitry: Semiotics and the Analysis of Film

Ranskalaista elokuvan semiotiikkaa englanniksi. 2000. Alkuteos 1986. Muutama merkintä alussa. 277 sivua, pehmeäkantinen.

Jean-René Pierre Goetgheluck Le Rouge Tillard des Acres de Presfontaines, whose pseudonym was Jean Mitry (French: [mit?i]; 7 November 1904 – 18 January 1988), was a French film theorist, critic and filmmaker, a co-founder of France's first film society, and, in 1938, of the Cinémathèque Française.

""[Jean Mitry] is the Aristotle of film."" -- R. D. MacCann .."".probably the most profound and highly respected film theoretician and historian in France."" -- The Macmillan International Film Encyclopaedia First published in France, this study is a classic analysis of the value of semiotics in film analysis.

Jean Mitry (7 November 1907, Soissons, Aisne – 18 January 1988, La Garenne-Colombes) was a French film theorist, critic and filmmaker, co-founder of France's first film society and later of the Cinémathèque Française in 1938.

The first lecturer of film aesthetics in France, Mitry was one of the first intellectuals responsible for, in the words of Dudley Andrew, "taking film studies out of the era of the film club and into that of the university". His definitive works are largely considered[according to whom?] to be The Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema and Semiotics and the Analysis of Film.

Mitry was one of few major film theorists who actually worked with film production. He was editor of Alexandre Astruc's short film Le Rideau Cramoisi (1953) and director of two films of his own, Pacific 231 (1949) set to Arthur Honegger's music and Images pour Debussy (1952) set to the music of Claude Debussy.

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