Christian Metz and the Codes of Cinema
Christian Metz and the Codes of Cinema

Author: Margrit Tröhler

Publisher: Film Theory in Media History

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789089648921

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A pioneering figure in film studies, Christian Metz proposed countless new concepts for reflecting on cinema, rooted in his phenomenological structuralism. He also played a key role in establishing film studies as a scholarly discipline, making major contributions to its institutionalisation in universities worldwide. This book brings together a stellar roster of contributors to present a close analysis of Metz's writings, their theoretical and epistemological positions, and their ongoing influence today.

Film Language
Film Language

Author: Christian Metz

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780226521305

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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 cinéma: 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 the issues it raises . . . issues that have become crucial to the contemporary argument."—Stephen Heath, Screen

Film Semiotics, Metz, and Leone's Trilogy
Film Semiotics, Metz, and Leone's Trilogy

Author: Lane Roth

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-23

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1317928520

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Semiotics offers a systematic approach to analysing the stylistic structure of film. When this study was originally published in 1983 this was a recent addition to the methods of film study and it presents an explanation of film semiotics with direct application to comparative film research. It takes as its representative subject one trilogy of films and applies semiology, with careful textual analysis. The book begins with a basic introduction to semiotics and the ideas of Christian Metz on cinesemiotics. It then presents a syntagmatic analysis of each of the three Dollars films, with an outline of autonomous segments for each and a discussion of the findings before undertaking a wider analysis of the trilogy as a whole with commentary on the stylistic unity of the director’s work. This book, an enduring detailed study of these three films, also outlines clearly this method of classifying the formal structuring codes of film communication.

New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics
New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics

Author: Robert Stam

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-07-08

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1134963165

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First published in 1992. New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics provides a comprehensive lexicon of semiotic concepts. With sections on linguistics, narratology, psychoanalysis and intertextuality, it constructs an indispensable dictionary for film theory, defining over five hundred critical terms. The authors address key aspects of contemporary semiotics and cultural debate, while referring to the work of key figures such as Peirce, Saussure, Derrida, Barthes, Propp, Genette, Greimas, Kristeva, Lacan, Metz, Bellour, Heath, Mulvey, Johnston, Rose, Doane, Bakhtin and Baudrillard. The semiotic concepts are illustrated by examples drawn from the films of directors such as Welles, Dreyer, Brunel, Godard, Hitchcock, Varda, Akerman and Woody Allen. Although especially geared to the needs of film students, New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics should be useful for scholars in all areas of the arts, philosophy and literature.

Conversations with Christian Metz
Conversations with Christian Metz

Author: Warren Buckland

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789089648259

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This volume offers readable summaries, elaborations, and explanations of his sometimes complex and demanding theories of film.

The Analysis of Film
The Analysis of Film

Author: Raymond Bellour

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780253213648

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The Analysis of Film brings together the authors studies of classic Hollywood film. It is a book about the methods of close film analysis, the narrative structure of Hollwood film, Hitchcock's work and the role of women.

Questions of Cinema
Questions of Cinema

Author: Stephen Heath

Publisher:

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780253159137

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"It is essential reading for anyone concerned with the theoretical discussion of cinema, and ideology in general." -- Semiotica ..". Heath is an antidote to the Cinema 101 worldview." -- Voice Literary Supplement Heath's study of film draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis, semiotics, and Marxism, presenting film as a signifying practice and the cinema as a social institution of meanings.