Impersonal enunciation, or the place of film
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Impersonal enunciation, or the place of film
（Film and culture）
Columbia University Press, c2016
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Énonciation impersonnelle, ou, Le site du film
Place of film
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Works cited: p. [217]-227
Includes index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Translator's Introduction Part I: Humanoid Enunciation 1. Humanoid Enunciation Part II: Some Landscapes of Enunciation (A Guided Tour) 2. The Voice of Address in the Image: The Look to Camera 3. The Voice of Address Outside the Image: Related Sounds 4. Written Modes of Address 5. Secondary Screens, or Squaring the Rectangle 6. Mirrors 7. "Exposing the Apparatus" 8. Film(s) Within Film 9. Subjective Images, Subjective Sounds, "Point of View" 10. The I-voice and Related Sounds 11. The Oriented Objective System: Enunciation and Style 12. "Neutral" (?) Images and Sounds Part III: A Walk in the Clouds (Taking Theoretical Flight) 13. (Taking Theoretical Flight) Afterword, by Dana Polan Notes On the Shelf: Works Cited Index
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