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Distributed for Amsterdam University Press

Edited by Warren Buckland

The Film Spectator

From Sign to Mind

258 pages,  6 x 8-3/4  © 1995
Series: Amsterdam University Press - Film Culture in Transition

Cloth $11.50

ISBN: 9789053561706   Published June 1995
For sale only in the United States, its dependencies, the Philippines, and Canada

From Sign to Mind: A General Introduction, Thomas Elsaesser
 
Preface, Warren Buckland
 
Section 1: Film Semiology, Transformational Generative Grammar, and Cognitive Science
 
Introduction, Warren Buckland
Towards a Generative Model of Filmic Discourse, Dominque Chateau
The Grande Syntagmatique Revisited, Michel Colin
Film Semiology as a Cognitive Science, Michel Colin
 
Section 2: Film and Enunciation Revisited
 
Introduction, Warren Buckland and Jan Simons
Face to Face, Fancesco Casetti
The Impersonal Enunciation, or the Site of Film, Christian Metz
The Authorized Narrative, François Jost
'Enunciation': From Code to Interpretation, Jan Simons
 
Section 3: The Pragmatic Tendency in the New Film Semiology
 
Introduction, Jan Simons
For a Semio-Pragmatics of Film, Roger Odin
For a Semio-Pragmatic Approach to the Documentary Film, Rogher Odin
The Diegetic Look.  Pragmatics of the Point-of-View Shot, Elena Dagrada
 
Selected Bibliography
Publication Acknoledgements
Film Culture In Transition
Subjects



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