The Ordinary Man of Cinema

by Jean Louis Schefer

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584351853
• ISBN13: 9781584351856
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Semiotext(e)
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher