The Fall of the House of Usher
1928
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Jean Epstein (French:; 25 March 1897 – 2 April 1953) was a French filmmaker, film theorist, literary critic, and novelist. Although he is remembered today primarily for his adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe 's The Fall of the House of Usher , he directed three dozen films and was an influential critic of literature and film from the early 1920s ...
He would remain in the cinematic fray for much of the 1920s, as he charted his own course through the various isms, industry factions, and art movements making competing claims on cinema while bidding for broader cultural recognition. Epstein fit into none of the diverse camps that emerged.
Dec 20, 2010 · Jean Epstein was an important figure in the school of filmmaking variously called “French Impressionism”, the “narrative avant-garde”, the “first cinematic avant-garde”, and the “pre-war French school”.
Feb 17, 2021 · An overview of Jean Epstein's account of photogenie in his essay "On Certain Characteristics of Photogenie" and "Magnification," paired with an examination of the processing scene in The...
By 1953, dead at 56 of a brain hemorrhage after years of unspecified illness, Epstein left behind dozens of silent and sound films, a good portion of which are features; ten published books, almost all cinematic treatises; as well as scores of articles and unpublished works like Ganymède, a book-length discourse on male homosexuality.
Jul 26, 2016 · Jean Epstein was both one of the great filmmakers of the silent era and one of cinema’s first philosophers. To call his writing “criticism” or even “theory” seems insufficient: his work was observational poetry.
Jean Epstein’s writing highlighted cinema as the preeminent modern form, addressing the changing nature of labor and its fatigue, the new relative conception of time and space, and the virtuosity with which the camera machine gave perceptual access to a nerve-wracking world.
Mar 5, 2016 · Long known outside France primarily for The Fall of the House of Usher and The Three-Sided Mirror, Epstein’s richly varied career is finally receiving a fuller accounting in the United States thanks to new translations, critical studies, and the many restored prints included in this retrospective.
Jul 1, 2014 · Amid the recent revival of interest in the work of Jean Epstein, Christophe Wall-Romana has produced a remarkably complete, intelligent, and sensitive monograph on Epstein's philosophy and cinematography. It is refreshing to read a study by one so well versed in French literature, cinema, and philosophy, able to situate Epstein's work in the ...
Filmmaker and theoretician Jean Epstein profoundly influenced film practice, criticism and reception in France during the 1920s and well beyond. His work not only forms the crux of the debates of his time, but also remains key to understanding later developments in film practice and theory.
