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Jean Collet
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Jean Collet
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| Born | 3 March 1932 |
| Died | 11 November 2020 (aged 88) |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Writer |
Jean Collet (born March 3, 1932 – died November 11, 2020) was a French writer and expert on movies. He was also a university professor who taught about film. He helped many people learn about the art of cinema.
Biography
Jean Collet was born in Pau, a city in France. He went to college and studied philosophy at Paris-Sorbonne University. He was very inspired by the ideas of a famous thinker named Gaston Bachelard.
Collet started his career as a journalist. He wrote for magazines like Télérama from 1959 to 1971. He also wrote for Cahiers du Cinéma, a well-known movie magazine, from 1961 to 1968. In 1965, he began writing movie reviews for Études magazine. He also helped organize and run film clubs across France. These clubs were places where people could watch and talk about movies together.
Jean Collet wrote many books about cinema. He wrote a special book about the famous movie director Jean-Luc Godard. Collet also worked hard to make studying movies a proper subject at universities in France. He even helped create the cinema department at Paris Diderot University. He taught as a professor at several universities, including Paris Descartes University. He also worked for Arte, a TV channel, and gave advice about films for different encyclopedias.
Jean Collet passed away on November 11, 2020, at the age of 88.
Books About Cinema
Jean Collet wrote many important books that helped people understand movies better. Here are some of them:
- Jean-Luc Godard (1963)
- Le Cinéma en question : Rozier, Chabrol, Rivette, Truffaut, Demy, Rohmer (1972)
- Lectures du film (1977)
- Le Cinéma de François Truffaut (1977)
- La Nouvelle Vague, 25 ans après (1983)
- François Truffaut (1985)
- La Création selon Fellini (1990)
- Après le film (1999)
- John Ford, la violence et la loi (2003)
- François Truffaut. La profondeur secrète d'une œuvre géniale, enfin révélée (2004)
- Petite Théologie du cinéma (2014)
- L'Art de voir un film (2015)
- Tout sur François Truffaut (2020)
