A Furious Exactitude An Overview of Christian Metz’s Film Theory

From 1968 to 1991, Christian Metz (1931–1993), the pioneering and acclaimed film theorist, wrote several influential books on film theory:Essais sur la signification au cinéma, tome 1 et 2(volume 1 translated asFilm Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema);Langage et cinéma(Language and Cinema);Le signi...

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Published inConversations with Christian Metz pp. 13 - 32
Main Author Buckland, Warren
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 15.11.2017
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Abstract entities
Abstract objects
Anthropology
Applied anthropology
Behavioral sciences
Clinical psychology
Coding theory
Communications
Cultural anthropology
Cultural semiotics
Cultural studies
Film semiotics
Film studies
Film theory
Information science
Language
Linguistics
Metaphysics
Nominalism
Ontology
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Psychotherapy
Semiotics
Signification
Social sciences
Structural linguistics
Theoretical linguistics
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Summary:From 1968 to 1991, Christian Metz (1931–1993), the pioneering and acclaimed film theorist, wrote several influential books on film theory:Essais sur la signification au cinéma, tome 1 et 2(volume 1 translated asFilm Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema);Langage et cinéma(Language and Cinema);Le signifiant imaginaire. Psychanalyse et cinéma(Psychoanalysis and Cinema: The Imaginary Signifier); andL’enonciation impersonnelle ou le site du film(Impersonal Enunciation or the Place of Film).² These books set the agenda of academic film theory during its formative period. Throughout universities around the world, Metz’s ideas were taken up, digested, refined,
ISBN:9789089648259
9089648259
DOI:10.1515/9789048526734-004