Ballaciner

Ballaciner
AuthorJ. M. G. Le Clézio, Gilles Jacob
Original titleBallaciner
LanguageFrench
SubjectCinema
GenreEssay
PublisherEditions Gallimard, nrf, Paris
Publication date
2007
Publication placeFrance
Pages185
ISBN978-2-07-078484-4
OCLC132401827
LC ClassPQ2672.E25 Z46 2007

Ballaciner is an essay by French Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio with help from Gilles Jacob. It was originally published in French in 2003.

Ballaciner was described by the Nobel committee as:

"A deeply personal essay about the history of the art of film and the importance of film in the author’s life, from the hand-turned projectors of his childhood, the cult of cinéaste trends in his teens, to his adult forays into the art of film as developed in unfamiliar parts of the world"

“Ballaciner” is a French neologism meaning adopting an attitude of a strolling moviegoer.