Noël Burch

Noël Burch (1932) is an American film theorist.

Books

Praxis du cinéma, 1969

• Praxis du cinéma, Paris: Gallimard, 1969; 1986; 2006. [1] (French)
  • Theory of Film Practice, trans. Helen R. Lane, intro Annette Michelson, Praeger Publishers, 1973; Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981, PDF, PDF, IA, ARG.
  • Práxis do cinema, trans. Nuno Júdice and Cabral Martins, Lisboa: Estampa, 1973, PDF, PDF, IA, ARG. (Portuguese)

• Marcel L’Herbier, Paris: Seghers, 1973. (French)

To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in the Japanese Cinema, 1979, PDF.

• To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in the Japanese Cinema, rev. and ed. Annette Michelson, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979, 387 pp; London: Scolar Press, 1979, 387 pp, PDF, PDF, IA, ARG. TOC [2]

• Pour un observateur lointain, Paris: Gallimard/Cahiers du cinéma, 1983. (French)
  • Life to those shadows, trans. and edited by Ben Brewster, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990, 317 pp, PDF, PDF, IA, ARG. TOC (English)

• La Lucarne de l’infini. Naissance du langage cinématographique, Paris: Nathan, 1991. (French)

• with Geneviève Sellier, La Drôle de guerre des sexes du cinéma français: 1930-1956, intro Michelle Perrot, Paris: Nathan Université, 1996. (French)
  • The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930-1956, trans. Peter Graham, Durham and London: Duke University Press Books, 2014, PDF, ARG.

• Revoir Hollywood: la nouvelle critique anglo-américaine, Paris: Nathan, 1993. (French)

• De la beauté des latrines: Pour réhabiliter le sens au cinéma et ailleurs, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2007. (French)

• with Geneviève Sellier, Le cinéma au prisme des rapports de sexe, Paris, Vrin, 2009. (French)

• with Geneviève Sellier, Ignorée de tous...sauf du public (quinze ans de fiction télévisée française 1995-2010), Bry-sur-Marne, INA, 2013. (French)

• with Geneviève Sellier, L'amour des femmes puissantes: introduction à la viragophilie, Paris, EPEL, 2015. (French)

Selected articles

• "To the Distant Observer: Towards a Theory of Japanese Film", October 1, Spring 1976, pp 32-46, ARG.

• with Allan Sekula, "Notes for a Film", October 100, Spring 2002, pp 83-87, ARG.

Links

• https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Burch