Noël Burch

Biography

Noël Burch is an American film theorist and movie maker born in 1932 who moved to France at a young age. He is known for his contribution to film scholarship, particularly his theories on early cinema, which he identified as the primitive mode of representation (PMR). His work, notably "Theory of Film Practice", has become a key text in Western film theory, expanding on formalist principles and revising earlier ideas in later editions.