Interdisciplinarity and Film Studies by Laurent Jullier

Why is it that true interdisciplinary work, that which calls upon several paradigms to construct knowledge appropriate to a given situation, in the field of films studies can be counted, in France at least, on the fingers of one hand ? Indeed, the cinema, due to its character as a «total social fact », should be considered, par excellence, an object whose study calls for different perspectives. Various institutional, ideological, epistemological reasons will be offered here to explain the situation. The author draws attention to the « interpretation quarrel » that opposed U. Eco to R. Rorty and defends the use of pragmatic sociology and particularly its paradigm of translation.

 

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Born in 1960 in a working-class region of eastern of France, Laurent Jullier is director of research at the Institut de Recherches sur le Cinéma et l’Audiovisuel (IRCAV) at the University of  Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle and professor of film studies at the Institut Européen de Cinéma et d’Audiovisuel (IECA) at the University of Nancy II. He worked in several professions before receiving his doctorate from the Sorbonne in 1994. A cinephile since his younger days, although not in the way the French cinephile establishment understands the word, he has retained a taste for popular films and gladly takes them on as objects of study. He has written several articles for Esprit and for the Encyclopædia Universalis, as well as a dozen books, among which several have been translated (into Spanish, Portugese, Italian, German, Chinese and Korean). Their subject is cinema or images in general. Holywood et la difficulté d’aimer, published by Stock in 2004, won the Union of French Cinema Critics's prize for best book.

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