Jean Collet (3 March 1932 – 11 November 2020) was a French writer, cinematic theorist, and university professor.

[1] Born in Pau, Collet studied at the École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière and Paris-Sorbonne University, where he earned a degree in philosophy.

Collet worked as a journalist for Télérama from 1959 to 1971 and at Cahiers du Cinéma from 1961 to 1968.

In particular, he devoted a monograph to Jean-Luc Godard published by Éditions Seghers.

He served as a professor at Paris Descartes University, the Centre Sèvres, and the Institut national de l'audiovisuel.