Christian Metz and the codes of cinema : film semiology and beyond /
Film semiology and beyond
edited by Margrit TrÖhler and Guido Kirsten
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
- 484 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
- Film theory in media history. .
- Film theory in media history .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Christian Metz and film semiology: dynamics within and on the edges of the 'model' - an introduction / Two ways of thinking / Christian Metz and his theoretical legacy / Christian Metz for today / Thinking cinema: Christian Metz and/in the tradition of film theory / Barthes' early film semiology and the legacy of filmology in Metz / Christian Metz and aesthetics / Christian Metz and modern cinema / Christian Metz, editing, and forms of alternation / Between classical and postclassical theory: Metz on specificity then and now / Cyber-Metz?: the notion of code in the writings of Christian Metz / Yes, the image lies beyond analogy: understanding Metz with Cartier-Bresson / The cinematic signifier and the imaginary / Fetishism and scepticism, or the two worlds of Christian Metz and Stanley Cavell / Cinema: image or narrative? / Semiotics, science, and cinephilia: Christian Metz's last book, L'©♭nonciation impersonnelle / '"Theorize", he says...' - Christian Metz and the question of enunciation: a theory in (speech) acts / Personal enunciation: presences of absences / Metz with Deleuze: from film-philosophy to film theory and back again / Thirty years after / The semiology of cinema?: it is necessary to continue! - a conversation with Christian Metz / Flashback to winter 1990 / 'I never expected semiology to thrill the masses' - interview with Christian Metz / Margrit Tr©œhler -- Raymond Bellour -- Michel Marie -- Roger Odin -- Frank Kessler -- Guido Kirsten -- Martin Lefebvre -- Francesco Casetti -- Andr©♭ Gaudreault and Philippe Gauthier -- Philip Rosen -- Selim Krichane -- Marc Vernet -- Mary Ann Doane -- D.N. Rodowick -- Anne Goliot-L©♭t©♭ -- Dana Polan -- Alain Boillat -- Dominique Bluher -- Nico Baumbach -- Elena Dagrada -- Elena Dagrada and Guglielmo Pescatore -- Margrit Tr©œhler -- Dominique Bl©ơher and Margrit Tr©œhler -- Christian Metz 1. Part I. Metz and the tradition of film theory. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Part II. Questions of form and aesthetics. 7. 8. 9. Part III. Specificities of the cinematic code and the imaginary. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Part IV. Narration, enunciation, cinephilia. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. Two interviews with Christian Metz. 20. 21. 22. 23. Postscript. Conclusion /
A pioneering figure in film studies, Christian Metz proposed countless new concepts for reflecting on cinema, rooted in his phenomenological structuralism. He also played a key role in establishing film studies as a scholarly discipline, making major contributions to its institutionalisation in universities worldwide. This book brings together a stellar roster of contributors to present a close analysis of Metz's writings, their theoretical and epistemological positions, and their ongoing influence today
9789089648921 (pbk.) 9089648925 (pbk.)
Metz, Christian.
Film criticism
Motion pictures--Philosophy
Semiotics
PN1995 / .C57 2018
791
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Christian Metz and film semiology: dynamics within and on the edges of the 'model' - an introduction / Two ways of thinking / Christian Metz and his theoretical legacy / Christian Metz for today / Thinking cinema: Christian Metz and/in the tradition of film theory / Barthes' early film semiology and the legacy of filmology in Metz / Christian Metz and aesthetics / Christian Metz and modern cinema / Christian Metz, editing, and forms of alternation / Between classical and postclassical theory: Metz on specificity then and now / Cyber-Metz?: the notion of code in the writings of Christian Metz / Yes, the image lies beyond analogy: understanding Metz with Cartier-Bresson / The cinematic signifier and the imaginary / Fetishism and scepticism, or the two worlds of Christian Metz and Stanley Cavell / Cinema: image or narrative? / Semiotics, science, and cinephilia: Christian Metz's last book, L'©♭nonciation impersonnelle / '"Theorize", he says...' - Christian Metz and the question of enunciation: a theory in (speech) acts / Personal enunciation: presences of absences / Metz with Deleuze: from film-philosophy to film theory and back again / Thirty years after / The semiology of cinema?: it is necessary to continue! - a conversation with Christian Metz / Flashback to winter 1990 / 'I never expected semiology to thrill the masses' - interview with Christian Metz / Margrit Tr©œhler -- Raymond Bellour -- Michel Marie -- Roger Odin -- Frank Kessler -- Guido Kirsten -- Martin Lefebvre -- Francesco Casetti -- Andr©♭ Gaudreault and Philippe Gauthier -- Philip Rosen -- Selim Krichane -- Marc Vernet -- Mary Ann Doane -- D.N. Rodowick -- Anne Goliot-L©♭t©♭ -- Dana Polan -- Alain Boillat -- Dominique Bluher -- Nico Baumbach -- Elena Dagrada -- Elena Dagrada and Guglielmo Pescatore -- Margrit Tr©œhler -- Dominique Bl©ơher and Margrit Tr©œhler -- Christian Metz 1. Part I. Metz and the tradition of film theory. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Part II. Questions of form and aesthetics. 7. 8. 9. Part III. Specificities of the cinematic code and the imaginary. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Part IV. Narration, enunciation, cinephilia. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. Two interviews with Christian Metz. 20. 21. 22. 23. Postscript. Conclusion /
A pioneering figure in film studies, Christian Metz proposed countless new concepts for reflecting on cinema, rooted in his phenomenological structuralism. He also played a key role in establishing film studies as a scholarly discipline, making major contributions to its institutionalisation in universities worldwide. This book brings together a stellar roster of contributors to present a close analysis of Metz's writings, their theoretical and epistemological positions, and their ongoing influence today
9789089648921 (pbk.) 9089648925 (pbk.)
Metz, Christian.
Film criticism
Motion pictures--Philosophy
Semiotics
PN1995 / .C57 2018
791