THE ORDINARY MAN OF CINEMA

When it was first published in French in 1980, The Ordinary Man of Cinema signaled a shift from the French film criticism of the 196 0s to a new breed of film philosophy that disregarded the semiotics and post-structuralism of the preceding decades. Schefer describ es 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 movie-going and the fleeting, i mpalpabl...[Read more]