
still from Corrinne Cantrill's This Life's Body, courtesy of the artist |
Bluher studied in Berlin before coming to France where she received her PhD in film studies from Université Paris 3 (Sorbonne nouvelle). Bluher has been Maître de conférences at the Université Rennes 2 where she taught film theory, aesthetics, and analysis. She has been an editor of the bilingual journal of theory on image and sound, Iris, and also served as the French correspondent for the International Forum of Young Cinema at the Berlin Film Festival. Her research interests include reflexivity, autorepresentation, and autofiction in the cinema, as well as modern and contemporary French film (fiction and documentary). Her publications on French film theory, French cinema, and autobiographical films have appeared in Camera Obscura, Cinémathèque, Protée, Iris, Film und Kritik and other international journals of film theory. She recently coedited an anthology on French short films of the 50s and 60s. She is currently working on two books, one
on autobiography and film, and the other on the French filmmaker Joseph Morder. |
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