UID:
kobvindex_HPB1055040368
Format:
1 online resource (485 pages)
ISBN:
9789048527564
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9048527562
Series Statement:
Film Theory in Media History Ser.
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.
Note:
Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Editorial Note; 1. Christian Metz and Film Semiology; Dynamics within and on the Edges of the 'Model': An Introduction; Margrit Tröhler; I Metz and the Tradition of Film Theory; 2. Two Ways of Thinking; Raymond Bellour; 3. Christian Metz and his Theoretical Legacy; Michel Marie; 4. Christian Metz for Today; Roger Odin; 5. Thinking Cinema; Christian Metz and/in the Tradition of Film Theory; Frank Kessler; 6. Barthes' Early Film Semiology and the Legacy of Filmology in Metz; Guido Kirsten; II Questions of Form and Aesthetics.
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7. Christian Metz and AestheticsMartin Lefebvre; 8. Christian Metz and Modern Cinema; Francesco Casetti; 9. Christian Metz, Editing, and Forms of Alternation; André Gaudreault and Philippe Gauthier; III Specificities of the Cinematic Code and the Imaginary; 10. Between Classical and Postclassical Theory; Metz on Specificity Then and Now; Philip Rosen; 11. Cyber-Metz?; The Notion of Code in the Writings of Christian Metz; Selim Krichane; 12. Yes, the Image Lies Beyond Analogy; Understanding Metz with Cartier-Bresson; Marc Vernet; 13. The Cinematic Signifier and the Imaginary; Mary Ann Doane.
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14. Fetishism and Scepticism, or the Two Worlds of Christian Metz and Stanley CavellD. N. Rodowick; IV Narration, Enunciation, Cinephilia; 15. Cinema: Image or Narrative?; Anne Goliot-Lété; 16. Semiotics, Science, and Cinephilia; Christian Metz's Last Book, L'énonciation impersonnelle; Dana Polan; 17. '"Theorize", he says ... '; Christian Metz and the Question of Enunciation: A Theory in (Speech) Acts; Alain Boillat; 18. Personal Enunciation: Presences of Absences; Dominique Bluher; 19. Metz with Deleuze; From Film Philosophy to Film Theory and Back Again; Nico Baumbach.
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Two Interviews with Christian Metz20. Thirty Years Later; Elena Dagrada; 21. The Semiology of Cinema? It Is Necessary to Continue!; A Conversation with Christian Metz; Elena Dagrada and Guglielmo Pescatore; 22. Flashback to Winter 1990; Margrit Tröhler; 23. 'I Never Expected Semiology to Thrill the Masses'; Interview with Christian Metz; Dominique Blüher and Margrit Tröhler; Postscript; Conclusion; Index -- Names; Index -- Film Titles.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Tröhler, Margrit. Christian Metz and the Codes of Cinema : Film Semiology and Beyond. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2017 ISBN 9789089648921
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
URL:
ProQuest Ebook Central
