Jacques Aumont
Jacques Aumont taught cinema and aesthetics for forty years in Paris universities. His work has focused on three related fields: (1) theoretical problems around representation and the aesthetics of visual art; (2) the relationship of film and fiction; and (3) film analysis, its methodology and related concepts. He is the author, co-author, editor or translator of more than twenty books, including in English Montage Eisenstein, The Image and Aesthetics of Film. In 2019, he received the prestigious Balzan Prize for his career in film studies.