Why and How to Interpret Movies? Jacques Aumont’s Proposal
Rafał Koschany
koschany@amu.edu.plAdam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9343-9885
Abstract
The translation of Jacques Aumont’s book Interpretation of Films is an opportunity for the Polish reader to face the contemporary problems of analysing and interpreting a film work from the perspective of French film theory. The book is an example of an original lecture on film interpretation, whose phenomenon lies in the fact that it is both the viewer’s everyday experience and a professionally performed art. Aumont’s writing method could be defined as the method of juxtaposition: putting existing interpretations side by side in order to verify their effectiveness, viability or universality.
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Jacques Aumont, interpretation, analysis, film theoryReferences
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.31648/mkks.3019
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Rafał Koschanykoschany@amu.edu.pl
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9343-9885
Associate Professor at the Institute of Cultural Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. He specializes in the theory of interpretation, contemporary theories of the interpretation of works of art, the semiotics of culture and also research on the borderland between literary and film studies. Author of the books Przypadek. Kategoria artystyczna i egzystencjalna w literaturze i filmie [Chance: Existential and Artistic Category in Film and Literature] (2006, 2nd ed. 2016) and Zamiast interpretacji. Między doświadczeniem kinematograficznym a rozumieniem filmu [Instead of Interpretation: Between Cinematographic Experience and Understanding of Film] (2017), numerous articles in journals and chapters in books; co-editor of several collective publications, among others, Musical. Poszerzanie pola gatunku [The Musical: The Widening of the Genre’s Field] (2013).
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