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Alain Boillat
Alain Boillat is a professor in the Film History and Aesthetics Department of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His research interests include fiction theory, narration, adaptation and serial practices in cinema and comics, the history of screenwriting practices, the interaction between voices and images in audio-visual media, the representation of technology on film, the science fiction genre, as well as gender and star studies. He is notably the author of En cas de Malheur, de Simenon à Autant-Lara: Essai de génétique scénaristique (Droz, 2020) and Cinema as a Worldbuilding Machine in the Digital Era: Essay on Multiverse Films and TV Series (John Libbey, 2022). His latest book, dedicated to the career of Alain Tanner, was published in 2023 (EPFL Press).
Contact: Quartier UNIL-Chamberonne, Bâtiment Anthropole, Bureau 4170, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.