Jean-Louis Schefer

Jean Louis Schefer (7 December 1938 – 7 June 2022) was a French writer, philosopher, art critic, and theoretician of cinema and image.

Career
Born in Paris, France, a graduate of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales on Les écritures figuratives, a problème de grammaire égyptienne (under the guidance of Roland Barthes and Algirdas Julien Greimas), Schefer worked in Milan from 1965 to 1966, in the preparation of a dictionary, then in Venice from 1967 to 1968. In Italy he presented works of Gianfranco Pardi, Titina Maselli, Emilio Tadini, Gianni Colombo and others. From 1970 to 1981 he taught in Paris.

He collaborated with the magazines Tel Quel, Communications, Information sur les sciences sociales, Littérature, Critique, and Cahiers du Cinéma.