Film language : a semiotics of the cinema
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Film language : a semiotics of the cinema
University of Chicago Press, 1991, c1974
University of Chicago Press ed
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Essais sur la signification au cinéma
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Translation of: Essais sur la signification au cinéma, tome 1
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1974
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-268)
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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 cinema: 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
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