Author Biography
Roger Odin is professor emeritus of Communication at Paris 3 University (Sorbonne Nouvelle), where he was the head of the Film and Audiovisual Institute from 1983 until 2003. Theorist of the semio-pragmatic approach (Cinéma et production de sens, 1990; De la fiction, 2000; Les espaces de communication, 2011), he directed a research group examining film documentaries (L’âge d’or du cinéma documentaire. Europe années 50, 1997) and initiated research into home movies and amateur films (Le film de famille, 1995; Le cinéma en amateur, 1999). Today, he is interested in the mobile phone (Il cinema nell’epoca del videofonino, 2011; Téléphone mobile et création, in collaboration with L. Allard et L. Creton, 2014).
