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The Ordinary Man of Cinema
Jean Louis Schefer
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Description for The Ordinary Man of Cinema
Paperback. Translator(s): Cavitch, Max; Wedell, Noura; Grant, Paul. Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents. Num Pages: 224 pages, 34 b&w illus. BIC Classification: APFA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 298 x 275 x 19. Weight in Grams: 348.
The first English translation of a foundational work in cinema studies and the philosophy of film. When it was first published in French in 1980, The Ordinary Man of Cinema signaled a shift from the French film criticism of the 1960s to a new breed of film philosophy that disregarded the semiotics and post-structuralism of the preceding decades. Schefer describes the schizophrenic subjectivity the cinema offers us: the film as a work projected without memory, viewed by (and thereby lived by) a subject scarred and shaped by memory. The Ordinary Man of Cinema delineates the phenomenology of ... Read more
The first English translation of a foundational work in cinema studies and the philosophy of film. When it was first published in French in 1980, The Ordinary Man of Cinema signaled a shift from the French film criticism of the 1960s to a new breed of film philosophy that disregarded the semiotics and post-structuralism of the preceding decades. Schefer describes the schizophrenic subjectivity the cinema offers us: the film as a work projected without memory, viewed by (and thereby lived by) a subject scarred and shaped by memory. The Ordinary Man of Cinema delineates the phenomenology of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Autonomedia
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
Condition
New
Weight
348g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781584351856
SKU
V9781584351856
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About Jean Louis Schefer
Jean Louis Schefer (born in 1938) is a prolific and influential scholar of art history, theology, philosophy, music, and linguistics, as well as an author of fiction.
Reviews for The Ordinary Man of Cinema
Schefer's insights flicker in and out. Flashes of illumination are followed by pages that read like an obscure prose poem-suggestive, but enigmatic and sometimes unyielding. A strange and often beautiful book, The Ordinary Man of Cinema has little to say about the beauty of film itself. Rather, the word that keeps resurfacing is sublime. For Schefer, film does not inspire ... Read more