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Christian Metz and the codes of cinema : film semiology and beyond / edited by Margrit TrÖhler and Guido Kirsten

Contributor(s): Trohler, Margrit | Kirsten, GuidoMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Film theory in media historyPublication details: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]Description: 484 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9789089648921 (pbk.); 9089648925 (pbk.)Other title: Film semiology and beyondSubject(s): Metz, Christian | Film criticism | Motion pictures -- Philosophy | SemioticsDDC classification: 791 LOC classification: PN1995 | .C57 2018
Contents:
1. Christian Metz and film semiology: dynamics within and on the edges of the 'model' - an introduction / Margrit Tr©œhler -- Part I. Metz and the tradition of film theory. 2. Two ways of thinking / Raymond Bellour -- 3. Christian Metz and his theoretical legacy / Michel Marie -- 4. Christian Metz for today / Roger Odin -- 5. Thinking cinema: Christian Metz and/in the tradition of film theory / Frank Kessler -- 6. Barthes' early film semiology and the legacy of filmology in Metz / Guido Kirsten -- Part II. Questions of form and aesthetics. 7. Christian Metz and aesthetics / Martin Lefebvre -- 8. Christian Metz and modern cinema / Francesco Casetti -- 9. Christian Metz, editing, and forms of alternation / Andr©♭ Gaudreault and Philippe Gauthier -- Part III. Specificities of the cinematic code and the imaginary. 10. Between classical and postclassical theory: Metz on specificity then and now / Philip Rosen -- 11. Cyber-Metz?: the notion of code in the writings of Christian Metz / Selim Krichane -- 12. Yes, the image lies beyond analogy: understanding Metz with Cartier-Bresson / Marc Vernet -- 13. The cinematic signifier and the imaginary / Mary Ann Doane -- 14. Fetishism and scepticism, or the two worlds of Christian Metz and Stanley Cavell / D.N. Rodowick -- Part IV. Narration, enunciation, cinephilia. 15. Cinema: image or narrative? / Anne Goliot-L©♭t©♭ -- 16. Semiotics, science, and cinephilia: Christian Metz's last book, L'©♭nonciation impersonnelle / Dana Polan -- 17. '"Theorize", he says...' - Christian Metz and the question of enunciation: a theory in (speech) acts / Alain Boillat -- 18. Personal enunciation: presences of absences / Dominique Bluher -- 19. Metz with Deleuze: from film-philosophy to film theory and back again / Nico Baumbach -- Two interviews with Christian Metz. 20. Thirty years after / Elena Dagrada -- 21. The semiology of cinema?: it is necessary to continue! - a conversation with Christian Metz / Elena Dagrada and Guglielmo Pescatore -- 22. Flashback to winter 1990 / Margrit Tr©œhler -- 23. 'I never expected semiology to thrill the masses' - interview with Christian Metz / Dominique Bl©ơher and Margrit Tr©œhler -- Postscript. Conclusion / Christian Metz
Summary: 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
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1. Christian Metz and film semiology: dynamics within and on the edges of the 'model' - an introduction / Margrit Tr©œhler -- Part I. Metz and the tradition of film theory. 2. Two ways of thinking / Raymond Bellour -- 3. Christian Metz and his theoretical legacy / Michel Marie -- 4. Christian Metz for today / Roger Odin -- 5. Thinking cinema: Christian Metz and/in the tradition of film theory / Frank Kessler -- 6. Barthes' early film semiology and the legacy of filmology in Metz / Guido Kirsten -- Part II. Questions of form and aesthetics. 7. Christian Metz and aesthetics / Martin Lefebvre -- 8. Christian Metz and modern cinema / Francesco Casetti -- 9. Christian Metz, editing, and forms of alternation / Andr©♭ Gaudreault and Philippe Gauthier -- Part III. Specificities of the cinematic code and the imaginary. 10. Between classical and postclassical theory: Metz on specificity then and now / Philip Rosen -- 11. Cyber-Metz?: the notion of code in the writings of Christian Metz / Selim Krichane -- 12. Yes, the image lies beyond analogy: understanding Metz with Cartier-Bresson / Marc Vernet -- 13. The cinematic signifier and the imaginary / Mary Ann Doane -- 14. Fetishism and scepticism, or the two worlds of Christian Metz and Stanley Cavell / D.N. Rodowick -- Part IV. Narration, enunciation, cinephilia. 15. Cinema: image or narrative? / Anne Goliot-L©♭t©♭ -- 16. Semiotics, science, and cinephilia: Christian Metz's last book, L'©♭nonciation impersonnelle / Dana Polan -- 17. '"Theorize", he says...' - Christian Metz and the question of enunciation: a theory in (speech) acts / Alain Boillat -- 18. Personal enunciation: presences of absences / Dominique Bluher -- 19. Metz with Deleuze: from film-philosophy to film theory and back again / Nico Baumbach -- Two interviews with Christian Metz. 20. Thirty years after / Elena Dagrada -- 21. The semiology of cinema?: it is necessary to continue! - a conversation with Christian Metz / Elena Dagrada and Guglielmo Pescatore -- 22. Flashback to winter 1990 / Margrit Tr©œhler -- 23. 'I never expected semiology to thrill the masses' - interview with Christian Metz / Dominique Bl©ơher and Margrit Tr©œhler -- Postscript. Conclusion / Christian Metz

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

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