Noël Burch
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Noël Burch (born 1932) is a notable French film critic famous for his contribution of commonly used terms by film scholars (such as Institutional Mode of Representation (MRI)) and for his theories compiled in books such as Theory of Film Practice or La lucarne de L'Infini.
He also directed some short films and is related to the intelligentsia formed by the French New Wave.
His book To The Distant Observer, while often criticized for its self-serving and selective idealization of Japanese aesthetics in the service of Burch's own anti-structuralist, Marxist ideology, remains the most robust history of Japanese cinema written by a Westerner.
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