Jean-Louis Baudry (March 2, 1930 – October 3, 2015) was a Frenchnovelist,Tel Quelliterary editor, andpsychoanalytic film theorist.
He is best known for "Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus" (1970)[1] and "The Apparatus: Metapsychological Approaches to the Impression of Reality in Cinema" (1975),[2] two essays which pioneeredapparatus theory, a combination ofLouis Althusser's concept of theIdeological State Apparatus andJacques Lacan's theory of themirror stage to analyse the cinema as aninstitution. His influential ideas were critiqued and developed byfilm semioticianChristian Metz andfeminist film theoristLaura Mulvey in the mid-1970s.[3]
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