Film Language A Semiotics of the Cinema

Name: Film Language A Semiotics of the Cinema
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ISBN: 9780226521305

ISBN-10: 0226521303

ISBN-13: 9780226521305

Edition: 1990

Authors: Christian Metz, Michael Taylor

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A pioneer in the field, Christian Metz applies insights of structural linguistics to the language of film. "The semiology of film . . . can be held to date from the publication in 1964 of the famous essay by Christian Metz, 'Le cineacute;ma: langue ou langage?'"--Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Times Literary Supplement "Modern film theory begins with Metz."--Constance Penley, coeditor of Camera Obscura "Any consideration of semiology in relation to the particular field signifying practice of film passes inevitably through a reference to the work of Christian Metz. . . . The first book to be written in this field, [Film Language] is important not merely because of this primacy but also because of…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 286
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



A Note on the Translation



Preface A Note on Terminology



Phenomenological Approaches to Film



On the Impression of Reality in the Cinema



Notes Toward a Phenomenology of the Narrative



Problems of Film Semiotics



The Cinema: Language or Language System?



Some Points in the Semiotics of the Cinema



Problems of Denotation in the Fiction Film



Syntagmatic Analysis of the Image Track



Outline of the Autonomous Segments in Jacques Rozier's film




Syntagmatic Study of Jacques Rozier's Film




The "Modern" Cinema: Some Theoretical Problems



The Modern Cinema and Narrativity



Mirror Construction in Fellini's8 1/2



TheSayingand theSaid: Toward the Decline of Plausibility in the Cinema?


Notes