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Impersonal Enunciation, or the Place of Film
Christian Metz
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Description for Impersonal Enunciation, or the Place of Film
Hardback. Translator(s): Deane, Cormac. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: AFKV; APFA; CFD; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Film and Culture Series
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231173667
SKU
V9780231173667
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About Christian Metz
Christian Metz (1931-1993) is also the author of Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema; The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema; and Language and Cinema.
Reviews for Impersonal Enunciation, or the Place of Film
Metz's generous personality is captured well here, something that no other English translation has accomplished. It is both an extension of Metz's path-breaking work in bringing the concepts and methods of linguistics and psychoanalysis to the study of film, and the articulation of fundamentally new directions in his thought.
D. N. Rodowick, University of Chicago At long last, Christian ... Read more
D. N. Rodowick, University of Chicago At long last, Christian ... Read more