Abstract
Jean Louis Schefer is one of the less well-known French philosophers of cinema, and yet his seminal work from 1980, L'Homme ordinaire du cinéma, which has gone largely unnoticed in Anglo-American criticism, has been very influential on French film thinking. This paper sets out to frame Schefer's work in a manner that makes more accessible his unconventional manner and analysis of cinema history. Schefer's philosophy of cinema offers a very personal understanding of how the ‘ordinary person’ experiences cinema and, in particular, how individual films have the ability to shape personal interactions with history and culture, forming an ‘inner history’ that has been a part and continues to be a part of twentieth-century existential being, often confronting us with the more difficult moments and events in recent human history.
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