Jean Epstein
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1897
- Died
- 1953
- Works
- 19
Top works
- Écrits complets
- Le cinéma du diable
- Le cinématographe vu de l'Etna
- The intelligence of a machine
- Cinéma
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Film & TV
Directing · Warszawa, Russian Empire [now Poland]
Jean Epstein (French: [ɛp.ʃtajn]; 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 through the late 1940s. He is often associated…
Known for
- Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema — Self (archive footage)2011
- Jean Epstein or Cinema by Itself — (archival footage)1978
- Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma — Self (archive footage)1978
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 9
- Total plays
- 13
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 64,727x
- Situated Learning
· 1991 · cited 29,776x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 22,708x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 22,451x
- Numerical integration of the cartesian equations of motion of a system with constraints: molecular dynamics of n-alkanes
· 1977 · cited 19,597x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1897-03-25 ) 25 March 1897, Warsaw , Tsardom of Poland , Russian Empire
- Died
- 2 April 1953 (1953-04-02) (aged 56), Paris , France
- Occupations
- Film director film theorist literary critic novelist
- Years active
- 1922–1953
- Relatives
- Marie Epstein (sister)
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Key dates
- Born
- 25 March 1897
- Died
- 2 April 1953
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Article
Jean Epstein ( French: [ʒɑ̃ ɛpʃtajn]; 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 through the late 1940s. He is often associated with French Impressionist Cinema and the concept of photogénie.
Life and career