UID:
almahu_9949481570102882
Umfang:
1 online resource (198 p.)
ISBN:
9781614514114
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9783110238570
Serie:
Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] , 11
Inhalt:
Semiotics and Documentary Film: The Living Sign in the Cinema engages with very vital problems posed by Peirce's philosophy in an innovative and inter-disciplinary fashion by examining how documentary film practice can engage with the question of emergent human agency within a wider biosphere shared by human animals and non-human animals alike.The book is in many ways a celebration of human inquiry, taking liberally from Peirce's semeiotic and parallel ideas within recent visual anthropology. Through an analysis of the work of three renowned filmmakers - Jon Jost, Johan Van der Keuken, and Rithy Panh - Semiotics and Documentary Film: The Living Sign in the Cinema reasserts human agency within a global age, dominated by philosophical scepticism and an unquestioning subservience to mechanistic military techno-culture.The author argues that an approach to documentary inquiry, broadly derived from Peirce's sign theory, phenomenology, and overall philosophical outlook, has strong advantages over atemporal formal approaches derived from Saussurean semiology.Nevertheless, this project is also both critical and self-critical. It also bears direct testament to the many tumultuous and life-destroying events of the late 20th century and reminds us of the moral and philosophical problems which we are still grappling with in the early 21st century. Hence - the Living Sign.
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgements --
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Contents --
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List of tables and figures. Notes on citations and tables --
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Preface --
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1 Peirce's Semeiotic and the Living Sign --
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2 Parallel Developments and Divergences --
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3 Rupture, Dissent, and Conflict in the Cinema of Jon Jost --
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4 War and biophilia in the cinema of Johan van der Keuken --
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5 Terror and love in the cinema of Rithy Panh --
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Conclusion --
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References --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1, De Gruyter, 9783110238570
In:
DGBA Backlist Social Sciences 2000-2014 (EN), De Gruyter, 9783110238532
In:
DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014, De Gruyter, 9783110636970
In:
De Gruyter Mouton Backlist 2000-2015, De Gruyter, 9783110742961
In:
E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013, De Gruyter, 9783110317350
In:
E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 2013, De Gruyter, 9783110317244
In:
E-BOOK PAKET LINGUISTIK 2013, De Gruyter, 9783110317237
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781614515722
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9781614514114
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614514114
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781614514114
