The Ordinary Man of Cinema
$35.34
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
16 September 2016
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781584351856 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1584351853 |
| Author: | Jean Louis Schefer, Max Cavitch, Noura Wedell, Paul Grant |
| Publisher: | Autonomedia |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 16 September 2016 |
| Weight: | 421g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
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 aesthetic contemplation but instead directs us toward the limits of the thinkable.
—ArtforumAbout The Author
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.
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