The Imaginary Signifier Psychoanalysis And The Cinema

Author : Christian Metz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253203809
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imaginary Signifier written by Christian Metz and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... less about film than about the psychology of the viewing experience." --American Film Employing Freudian psychoanalysis, Christian Metz explores the nature of cinematic spectatorship and looks at the operations of meaning in the film text.

Author : Christian Metz
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333366400
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalysis and Cinema: the Imaginary Signifier written by Christian Metz and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1983-06-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Manchel
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838631867
Total Pages : 988 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film Study written by Frank Manchel and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four volumes of Film Study include a fresh approach to each of the basic categories in the original edition. Volume one examines the film as film; volume two focuses on the thematic approach to film; volume three draws on the history of film; and volume four contains extensive appendices listing film distributors, sources, and historical information as well as an index of authors, titles, and film personalities.

Author : Christian Metz
Publisher : Film and Culture Series
ISBN 13 : 9780231173674
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impersonal Enunciation, Or the Place of Film written by Christian Metz and published by Film and Culture Series. This book was released on 2016 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late work of an avant-garde theorist adds clarity to the phenomenology of new media.

Author : Peter Lehman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813523026
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defining Cinema written by Peter Lehman and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On film studies

Author : Stephen Heath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780253159137
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Questions of Cinema written by Stephen Heath and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is essential reading for anyone concerned with the theoretical discussion of cinema, and ideology in general." -- Semiotica ..". Heath is an antidote to the Cinema 101 worldview." -- Voice Literary Supplement Heath's study of film draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis, semiotics, and Marxism, presenting film as a signifying practice and the cinema as a social institution of meanings.

Author : Christian Metz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231540647
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impersonal Enunciation, or the Place of Film written by Christian Metz and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Metz is best known for applying Saussurean theories of semiology to film analysis. In the 1970s, he used Sigmund Freud's psychology and Jacques Lacan's mirror theory to explain the popularity of cinema. In this final book, Metz uses the concept of enunciation to articulate how films "speak" and explore where this communication occurs, offering critical direction for theorists who struggle with the phenomena of new media. If a film frame contains another frame, which frame do we emphasize? And should we consider this staging an impersonal act of enunciation? Consulting a range of genres and national trends, Metz builds a novel theory around the placement and subjectivity of screens within screens, which pulls in—and forces him to reassess—his work on authorship, film language, and the position of the spectator. Metz again takes up the linguistic and theoretical work of Benveniste, Genette, Casetti, and Bordwell, drawing surprising conclusions that presage current writings on digital media. Metz's analysis enriches work on cybernetic emergence, self-assembly, self-reference, hypertext, and texts that self-produce in such a way that the human element disappears. A critical introduction by Cormac Deane bolsters the connection between Metz's findings and nascent digital-media theory, emphasizing Metz's keen awareness of the methodological and philosophical concerns we wrestle with today.

Author : Christian Metz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226521305
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film Language written by Christian Metz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneer in the field, Christian Metz applies insights of structural linguistics to the language of film. "The semiology of film . . . can be held to date from the publication in 1964 of the famous essay by Christian Metz, 'Le cinéma: langue ou langage?'"—Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Times Literary Supplement "Modern film theory begins with Metz."—Constance Penley, coeditor of Camera Obscura "Any consideration of semiology in relation to the particular field signifying practice of film passes inevitably through a reference to the work of Christian Metz. . . . The first book to be written in this field, [Film Language] is important not merely because of this primacy but also because of the issues it raises . . . issues that have become crucial to the contemporary argument."—Stephen Heath, Screen

Author : Todd Mcgowan
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1635421063
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lacan and Contemporary Film written by Todd Mcgowan and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume collects a series of essays that link new developments in Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and recent trends in contemporary cinema. Though Lacanian theory has long had a privileged place in the analysis of film, film theory has tended to ignore some of Lacan's most important ideas. As a result, Lacanian film theory has never properly integrated the disruptive and troubling aspects of the filmic experience that result from the encounter with the Real that this experience makes possible. Many contemporary theorists emphasize the importance of the encounter with the Real in Lacan's thought, but rarely in discussions of film. By bringing the encounter with the Real into the dialogue of film theory, the contributors to this volume present a new version of Lacan to the world of film studies. These essays bring this rediscovered Lacan to bear on contemporary cinema through analysis of a wide variety of films, including Memento, Eyes Wide Shut, Breaking the Waves, and Fight Club. The films discussed here demand a turn to Lacanian theory because they emphasize the disruptive role of the Real and of jouissance in the experience of the human subject. There is a growing number of films in contemporary cinema that speak to film's power to challenge and disturb the complacency of spectators, and the essays in Lacan and Contemporary Film analyze some of these films and bring their power to light. Because of its dual focus on developments in Lacanian theory and in contemporary film, this collection serves as both an accessible introduction to current Lacanian film theory and an introduction to the study of contemporary cinema. Each essay provides an accessible, jargon-free analysis of one or more important films, and at the same time, each explains and utilizes key concepts of Lacanian theory. The collection stages an encounter between Lacanian theory and contemporary cinema, and the result is the enrichment of both.

Author : Warren Buckland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789089648259
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Christian Metz written by Warren Buckland and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers readable summaries, elaborations, and explanations of his sometimes complex and demanding theories of film.