Jean-Louis Comolli

Jean-Louis Comolli

Born July 30, 1941· Philippeville - Constantine - France - [now Skikda, Algeria]

† Died May 19, 2022

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Born in France, he entered the film world early, assuming the editorship of Cahiers du cinéma in his twenties after Jacques Rivette’s handover. His tenure (1966-1978) steered the journal toward a Marxist perspective, most famously with the incendiary “Cinema/Ideology/Criticism” editorial of 1969, and he authored the seminal essays “Machines of the Visible” and the six-part “Technique and Ideology,…

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources

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