Jean-Louis Comolli

Jean-Louis Comolli (1941) is a French writer, editor, and film director. He was editor in chief of Cahiers du cinéma from 1966 to 1978, during which period he wrote the influential essays "Machines of the Visible" (1971) and "Technique and Ideology: Camera, Perspective, Depth of Field" (1971-2), both of which have been translated in English anthologies of film and media studies. This work was important in the discussion on apparatus theory.

Writings

• "Machines of the Visible", 1971/1980.

See also

• Cahiers du Cinéma

Links

• Comolli at Wikipedia