{"product_id":"the-ordinary-man-of-cinema-9781584351856","title":"The Ordinary Man of Cinema","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first English translation of a foundational work in cinema studies and the philosophy of film.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen it was first published in French in 1980, \u003ci\u003eThe Ordinary Man of Cinema \u003c\/i\u003esignaled 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Ordinary Man of Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is also a book replete with mummies and vampires, tyrants and prostitutes, murderers and freaks--figures 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 man\" seeks and encounters when engaging in the disordering of the ordinary that the movie theater offers him. Among other things, Schefer considers \"The Gods\" in 31 brief essays on film stills and \"The Criminal Life\" with reflections on spectatorship and autobiography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile Schefer's book has long been standard reading in French film scholarship, until now it has been something of a missing link to the field (and more broadly, French theory) in English. It is one of the building blocks of more widely known and read translations of Gilles Deleuze (who cited this book as an influence on his own cinema books) and Jacques Ranci re.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Semiotext(e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/16\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781584351856\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Jean Louis Schefer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44988141404341,"sku":"9781584351856","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_b05a3a0d-c4a9-49f3-9257-17d10c785fa8.jpg?v=1735626355","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-ordinary-man-of-cinema-9781584351856","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}