Jean-Michel Frodon

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Jean-Michel Frodon
The Jury of Competition Section headed by Mr. Joao Batista de Andrade (Brazil), along with the members, Mr. Vic Sarin (Canada), Mr. Kenichi Okubu (Tokyo) Ms. Sarika (India) and Mr. Jean-Michel Frodon (France).jpg
Jean-Michel Frodon, IFFI (2009)
Born
Jean-Michel Billard

(1953-09-20) September 20, 1953 (age 70)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Journalist, critic, historian of cinema

Jean-Michel Frodon (born 20 September 1953 in Paris) is a journalist, critic and historian of cinema.

Biography

Born Jean-Michel Billard, he writes with a pseudonym borrowed from Frodo of The Lord of the Rings. He has a master's degree and a DEA in history. He worked as an educator from 1971 to 1981. Next, he was a photographer from 1981 to 1985. In 1983, he became a journalist and film critic for the weekly periodical Le Point, of which his father, Pierre Billard, also a journalist and a film critic, was one of the founders and chief editors. He held this post until 1990.

He took over the same functions at the daily newspaper

slate.fr
.

He has written, at times, for numerous other journals of cinema. In 2001 he founded L'Exception, the think tank about cinema. He has taught at

École Normale Supérieure, and currently teaches at Sciences Po Paris.[1]

Publications

  • "Jean de florette: la folle aventure d'un film", co-written with Jean-Claude Loiseau (editions Herscher, 1987)
  • «Les enquêteurs du regard,» Le Monde, 27 janvier 1994. (in French)
  • l'Âge moderne du cinéma français (Flammarion, 1995)
  • La Projection nationale (Éditions Odile Jacob, 1998)
  • Hou Hsiao-hsien (dir.,
    Les Cahiers du cinéma
    , 1999, augmented edition en 2005)
  • Conversation avec Woody Allen (Plon, 2000)
  • Print the Legend, Cinéma et journalisme (co-dir., Cahiers du cinéma, 2004)
  • Au sud du cinéma (dir., Cahiers du cinéma, 2004)
  • Horizon cinéma (Cahiers du cinéma, coll XXIe siècle, 2006)
  • Le Cinéma chinois (Cahiers du cinéma CNDP, coll Les Petits Cahiers, 2006)
  • Gilles Deleuze et les images (co-dir. avec François Dosse, Les Cahiers du cinéma, coll. Essais, 2008)
  • Robert Bresson (Les Cahiers du cinéma, coll. Grands cinéaste. 2008)
  • La critique de cinéma (Les Cahiers du cinéma CNDP, coll Les Petits Cahiers, 2008)
  • Genèses (avec
    Gallimard
    , 2009)
  • Cinema and the Shoah: An Art Confronts the Tragedy of the Twentieth Century. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. 2010. .

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Media offices
Preceded by Editor of
Cahiers du cinéma
2003–2009
With: Emmanuel Burdeau
Succeeded by