Jean-Louis Baudry
Jean-Louis Baudry (March 2, 1930 – October 3, 2015) was a French novelist, Tel Quel literary editor, and psychoanalytic film theorist. He is best known for "Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus" (1970) and "The Apparatus: Metapsychological Approaches to the Impression of Reality in Cinema" (1975), two essays which pioneered apparatus theory, a combination of Louis Althusser's concept of the Ideological State Apparatus and Jacques Lacan's theory of the mirror stage to analyse the cinema as an institution. His influential ideas were critiqued and developed by film semiotician Christian Metz and feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey in the mid-1970s.
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Jean-Louis Baudry
- Full name
- Jean-Louis Maurice Marie Baudry.
- Born
- 1930. · 14th arrondissement of Paris.
- Died
- 2015. · 15th arrondissement of Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- writer, designer, essayist, editing staff, film theorist, dentist, theatrologist and film scholar.
- Fields
- French prose literature, essay, literary magazine and film theory.
- Languages
- French.
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Jean-Louis Baudry (March 2, 1930 – October 3, 2015) was a French novelist, Tel Quel literary editor, and psychoanalytic film theorist. He is best known for "Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus" (1970) and "The Apparatus: Metapsychological Approaches to the Impression of Reality in Cinema" (1975), two essays which pioneered apparatus theory, a combination of Louis Althusser's concept of the Ideological State Apparatus and Jacques Lacan's theory of the mirror stage to analyse the cinema as an institution. His influential ideas were critiqued and developed by film semiotician Christian Metz and feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey in the mid-1970s.
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Recorded at birth as Jean-Louis Maurice Marie Baudry. Born at 14th arrondissement of Paris in 1930, died at 15th arrondissement of Paris in 2015.
The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is French prose literature, essay and literary magazine. Employment is recorded with Tel Quel. Work by Jean-Louis Baudry is recorded in the collections of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
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