The cognitive semiotics of film
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The cognitive semiotics of film
Cambridge University Press, 2000
- : pbk
Available at 16 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-169) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, Warren Buckland argues that the conflict between cognitive film theory and contemporary film theory is unproductive. Examining and developing the work of 'cognitive film semiotics', a neglected branch of film theory that combines the insights of cognitive science with those of linguistics and semiotics, he investigates Michel Colin's cognitive semantic theory of film; Francesco Casetti and Christian Metz's theories of film enunciation; Roger Odin's cognitive-pragmatic film theory; and Michel Colin and Dominique Chateau's cognitive studies of film syntax, which are viewed within the framework of Noam Chomsky's transformational generative grammar. Presenting a survey of cognitive film semiotics, this study also re-evaluates the film semiotics of the 1960s, highlights the weaknesses of American cognitive film theory, and challenges the move toward 'post-theory' in film studies.
Table of Contents
- Preface and acknowledgements
- 1. The cognitive turn in film theory
- 2. The body on screen and in frame: film and cognitive semantics
- 3. Not what is seen through the window but the window itself: reflexivity, enunciation and film
- 4. The institutional context: a semio-pragmatic approach to fiction and documentary film
- 5. All in the mind? The cognitive status of film grammar
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography of works cited
- Index.
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