Jean-Michel Frodon

Jean-Michel Frodon, born in Paris in 1953, is a renowned journalist, film critic and historian. He worked as a professor and as a photographer, but became a journalist and film critic when he started collaborating in the weekly periodical Le Point, of which his father, Pierre Billard, was on of the founders. In 1990, he continued with the same functions but this time in the newspaper Le Monde, being responsible for the daily film column, something that allowed him to reach the famous magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. He was Head Editor for Cahiers for four years, leaving the magazine in 2009 to create the blog Projection Publique, in the website slate.fr. He occasionally wrote for numerous of other cinema journals and, in 2001, he founded L’Exception, a think tank about cinema. In the past years, he was a teacher at Pantheon-Sorbonne University and at École Normale Superieure, currently teaching at Sciences Po Paris (Institute of Political Sciences), where is now associated to the project SPEAP (Sciences Po Experimentation in Arts and Politics), a highly selective multidisciplinary program destined to professionals from the social sciences, the politics and the arts.