Christian Metz and the codes of cinema film semiology and beyond

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 univ...

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Other Authors: Tröhler, Margrit (Editor), Kirsten, Guido (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2018, [2018]©2018
Series:Film theory in media history
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 'I Never Expected Semiology to Thrill the Masses': Interview with Christian Metz Postscript 'Conclusion' (handwritten note by Christian Metz) Summaries List of Contributors List of Translators
  • Yes, the Image Lies Beyond Analogy: Understanding Metz with Cartier-Bresson Mary Ann Doane
  • The Cinematic Signifier and the Imaginary D.N. Rodowick
  • Fetishism and Skepticism, or the Two Worlds of Christian Metz and Stanley Cavell IV. Narration, Enunciation, Cinephilia Anne Goliot-Lété
  • Cinema: Image or Narrative Dana Polan
  • Semiotics, Science, and Cinephilia: Christian Metz's last book, L'énonciation impersonnelle Alain Boillat
  • 'ŸTheorizeŒ, he says... ': Christian Metz and the Question of Enunciation: A Theory in (Speech) Acts Dominique Bluher
  • Personal Enunciation: Presences of Absences Nico Baumbach
  • Metz With Deleuze: From Film-Philosophy to Film Theory and Back Again Two Interviews with Christian Metz Elena Dagrada
  • Thirty Years After Elena Dagrada & Guglielmo Pescatore
  • The Semiology of Cinema? It Is Necessary to Continue! A Conversation with Christian Metz Margrit Tröhler
  • Flashback to Winter 1990 Dominique Blüher & Margrit Tröhler
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes
  • Acknowledgments & Editorial Note Margrit Tröhler
  • Christian Metz and Film Semiology
  • Dynamics within and on the Edges of the 'Model': An Introduction I. Metz and the Tradition of Film Theory Raymond Bellour
  • Two Ways of Thinking Michel Marie
  • Christian Metz and His Theoretical Legacy Roger Odin
  • Christian Metz for Today Frank Kessler
  • Thinking Cinema: Christian Metz and/in the Tradition of Film Theory Guido Kirsten
  • Barthes' Early Film Semiology and the Legacy of Filmology in Metz II. Questions of Form and Aesthetics Martin Lefebvre
  • Christian Metz and Aesthetics Francesco Casetti
  • Christian Metz and the Modern Cinema André Gaudreault & Philippe Gauthier
  • Christian Metz, Editing, and Forms of Alternation III. Specificities of the Cinematic Code and the Imaginary Philip Rosen
  • Between Classical and Postclassical Film Theory: Metz on Specificity Then and Now Selim Krichane
  • Cyber-Metz? The Notion of Code in the Writings of Christian Metz Marc Vernet