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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 movie-going and the fleeting, impalpable zone in which an individual's personal memory confronts the cinema's ideological images to create a new way of thinking. It is also a book replete with mummies and vampires, tyrants and prostitutes, murderers and freaksżfigures that are fundamental to Schefer's conception of the cinema, because the worlds that cinema traverses (our worlds, interior and exterior) are worlds of pain, unconscious desire, decay, repressed violence, and the endless mystery of the body. Fear and pleasure breed monsters, and such are what Schefer's emblematic "ordinary manż seeks and encounters when engaging in the disordering of the ordinary that the movie theater offers him.

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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: Ordinary Man of Cinema
• Author: Jean Louis Schefer
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9781584351856
• ISBN: 9781584351856
• ID: 10016433
• Publisher: Autonomedia
• Weight: 346 g
• Dimensions: 298 × 275 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. September 2016

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