UID:
edocfu_9959242262402883
Format:
1 online resource (483 pages).
ISBN:
90-485-2756-2
Series Statement:
Film Theory in Media History
Content:
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 institutionalization 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.
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Frontmatter --
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Table of Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Editorial Note --
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1. Christian Metz and Film Semiology /
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I. Metz and the Tradition of Film Theory --
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2. Two Ways of Thinking /
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3. Christian Metz and his Theoretical Legacy /
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4. Christian Metz for Today /
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5. Thinking Cinema /
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6. Barthes' Early Film Semiology and the Legacy of Filmology in Metz /
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II. Questions of Form and Aesthetics --
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7. Christian Metz and Aesthetics /
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8. Christian Metz and Modern Cinema /
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9. Christian Metz, Editing, and Forms of Alternation1 /
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III. Specificities of the Cinematic Code and the Imaginary --
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10. Between Classical and Postclassical Theory /
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11. Cyber-Metz? /
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12. Yes, the Image Lies Beyond Analogy /
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13. The Cinematic Signifier and the Imaginary /
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14. Fetishism and Scepticism , or the Two Worlds of Christian Metz and Stanley Cavell /
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IV. Narration, Enunciation, Cinephilia --
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15. Cinema: Image or Narrative? /
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16. Semiotics, Science, and Cinephilia /
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17. '"Theorize", he says... ' /
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18. Personal Enunciation: Presences of Absences /
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19. Metz with Deleuze /
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Two Interviews with Christian Metz --
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20. Thirty Years After /
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21. The Semiology of Cinema? It Is Necessary to Continue! /
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22. Flashback to Winter 1990 /
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23. 'I Never Expected Semiology to Thrill the Masses' /
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Postscript --
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Conclusion --
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Index - Names --
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Index - Film Titles
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-8964-892-5
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
DOI:
10.1515/9789048527564
