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Christian Metz

Film Language

A Semiotics of the Cinema

Translated by Michael Taylor
286 pages,     © 1974

Paper $23.00

ISBN: 9780226521305   Published December 1990
For sale only in the United States, its dependencies, the Philippines, and Canada

A Note on the Translation by Bertrand Augst
Preface
A Note on Terminology
I. Phenomenological Approaches to Film
1. On the Impression of Reality in the Cinema
2. Notes Toward a Phenomenology of the Narrative
II. Problems of Film Semiotics
3. The Cinema: Language or Language System?
4. Some Points in the Semiotics of the Cinema
5. Problems of Denotation in the Fiction Film
III. Syntagmatic Analysis of the Image Track
6. Outline of the Autonomous Segments in Jacques Rozier's film Adieu Philippine
7. Syntagmatic Study of Jacques Rozier's Film Adieu Philippine
IV. The "Modern" Cinema: Some Theoretical Problems
8. The Modern Cinema and Narrativity
9. Mirror Construction in Fellini's 8 1/2
10. The Saying and the Said: Toward the Decline of Plausibility in the Cinema?
Notes
Subjects



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