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New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics

Author : Robert Stam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134963165
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics written by Robert Stam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1992. New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics provides a comprehensive lexicon of semiotic concepts. With sections on linguistics, narratology, psychoanalysis and intertextuality, it constructs an indispensable dictionary for film theory, defining over five hundred critical terms. The authors address key aspects of contemporary semiotics and cultural debate, while referring to the work of key figures such as Peirce, Saussure, Derrida, Barthes, Propp, Genette, Greimas, Kristeva, Lacan, Metz, Bellour, Heath, Mulvey, Johnston, Rose, Doane, Bakhtin and Baudrillard. The semiotic concepts are illustrated by examples drawn from the films of directors such as Welles, Dreyer, Brunel, Godard, Hitchcock, Varda, Akerman and Woody Allen. Although especially geared to the needs of film students, New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics should be useful for scholars in all areas of the arts, philosophy and literature.

Film Language

Author : Christian Metz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226521305
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Film Language written by Christian Metz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneer in the field, Christian Metz applies insights of structural linguistics to the language of film. "The semiology of film . . . can be held to date from the publication in 1964 of the famous essay by Christian Metz, 'Le cinéma: langue ou langage?'"—Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Times Literary Supplement "Modern film theory begins with Metz."—Constance Penley, coeditor of Camera Obscura "Any consideration of semiology in relation to the particular field signifying practice of film passes inevitably through a reference to the work of Christian Metz. . . . The first book to be written in this field, [Film Language] is important not merely because of this primacy but also because of the issues it raises . . . issues that have become crucial to the contemporary argument."—Stephen Heath, Screen

The Cognitive Semiotics of Film

Author : Warren Buckland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521037150
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book The Cognitive Semiotics of Film written by Warren Buckland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-17 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, Warren Buckland argues that the conflict between cognitive film theory and contemporary film theory is unproductive. He examines and develops 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. Presenting a survey of cognitive film semiotics, this study also reevaluates the film semiotics of the 1960s, highlights the weaknesses of American cognitive film theory, and challenges the move toward "post-theory" in film studies.

Film Semiotics, Metz, and Leone's Trilogy

Author : Lane Roth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317928520
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Film Semiotics, Metz, and Leone's Trilogy written by Lane Roth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semiotics offers a systematic approach to analysing the stylistic structure of film. When this study was originally published in 1983 this was a recent addition to the methods of film study and it presents an explanation of film semiotics with direct application to comparative film research. It takes as its representative subject one trilogy of films and applies semiology, with careful textual analysis. The book begins with a basic introduction to semiotics and the ideas of Christian Metz on cinesemiotics. It then presents a syntagmatic analysis of each of the three Dollars films, with an outline of autonomous segments for each and a discussion of the findings before undertaking a wider analysis of the trilogy as a whole with commentary on the stylistic unity of the director’s work. This book, an enduring detailed study of these three films, also outlines clearly this method of classifying the formal structuring codes of film communication.

Semiotics and Documentary Film

Author : Hing Tsang
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 1614514119
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Semiotics and Documentary Film written by Hing Tsang and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semiotics and Documentary Film: The Living Sign in the Cinema engages with very vital problems posed by Peirce's philosophy in an innovative and inter-disciplinary fashion by examining how documentary film practice can engage with the question of emergent human agency within a wider biosphere shared by human animals and non-human animals alike. The book is in many ways a celebration of human inquiry, taking liberally from Peirce's semeiotic and parallel ideas within recent visual anthropology. Through an analysis of the work of three renowned filmmakers - Jon Jost, Johan Van der Keuken, and Rithy Panh - Semiotics and Documentary Film: The Living Sign in the Cinema reasserts human agency within a global age, dominated by philosophical scepticism and an unquestioning subservience to mechanistic military techno-culture. The author argues that an approach to documentary inquiry, broadly derived from Peirce's sign theory, phenomenology, and overall philosophical outlook, has strong advantages over atemporal formal approaches derived from Saussurean semiology. Nevertheless, this project is also both critical and self-critical. It also bears direct testament to the many tumultuous and life-destroying events of the late 20th century and reminds us of the moral and philosophical problems which we are still grappling with in the early 21st century. Hence - the Living Sign.

Language and Cinema

Author : Christian Metz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110816040
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Language and Cinema written by Christian Metz and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-11-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cinema and Semiotic

Author : Johannes Ehrat
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 080203912X
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Cinema and Semiotic written by Johannes Ehrat and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Peirce's Semiotic and Pragmatism, Ehrat offers a novel approach to cinematic meaning in three central areas: narrative enunciation, cinematic world appropriation, and cinematic perception.

Christian Metz and the Codes of Cinema

Author : Margrit Tröhler
Publisher : Film Theory in Media History
ISBN 13 : 9789089648921
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book Christian Metz and the Codes of Cinema written by Margrit Tröhler and published by Film Theory in Media History. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Semiotics and the Analysis of Film

Author : Jean Mitry
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253337337
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Semiotics and the Analysis of Film written by Jean Mitry and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyses the value of semiotics in film analysis. It poses the question that if cinema is a language can it be understood through the techniques of linguistic analysis? The study includes signs, montage, codes, images and narrative.

Signs and Meaning in the Cinema

Author : Peter Wollen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253181411
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Signs and Meaning in the Cinema written by Peter Wollen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Without doubt, it is the best study of cinema published in English for years." --Cinema "... a major achievement... drawing on the results of aesthetic inquiry--from Shaftesbury and Lessing to Jakobson and the formalists--in order to relate the cinema to wider areas of linguistic theory and theory of art." --Times Literary Supplement

Wes Anderson’s Symbolic Storyworld

Author : Warren Buckland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501316532
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Wes Anderson’s Symbolic Storyworld written by Warren Buckland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wes Anderson's Symbolic Storyworld presents a theoretical investigation of whatmakes the films of Wes Anderson distinctive. Chapter by chapter, it relentlessly pulls apart each of Anderson's narratives to pursue the proposition that they all share the same deep underlying symbolic values – a common symbolic storyworld. Taking the polemical strategy of outlining and employing Claude Lévi-Strauss's distinguished (and notorious) work on myth and kinship to analyze eight of Anderson's films, Warren Buckland unearths the peculiar symbolic structure of each film, plus the circuits of exchange, tangible and intangible gift giving, and unusual kinship systems that govern the lives of Anderson's characters. He also provides an analysis of Wes Anderson's visual and aural style, identifying several distinctive traits of Anderson's mise en scène.

Alice Doesn't

Author : Teresa de Lauretis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253203168
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Alice Doesn't written by Teresa de Lauretis and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1984-05-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is hardly a page in this collection of hard-thought and brilliantly written essays that does not yield some new insight." —Hayden White " . . . de Lauretis's writing is brisk and refreshingly lucid." —International Film Guide

The Photoplay

Author : Hugo Münsterberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Photoplay written by Hugo Münsterberg and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Semiotics of Exile in Contemporary Chinese Film

Author : H. Zeng
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137031638
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Semiotics of Exile in Contemporary Chinese Film written by H. Zeng and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a variety of film semiotic theories, this book sheds light on works by mainland Chinese directors, Hong Kong New Wave directors, Taiwan New Cinema directors, and overseas Chinese directors. Zeng examines the cultural/historical implications of exile through the detailed analysis of film language and theoretical exploration.

Japanese Mythology in Film

Author : Yoshiko Okuyama
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739190938
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Mythology in Film written by Yoshiko Okuyama and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cyborg detective hunts for a malfunctioning sex doll that turns itself into a killing machine. A Heian-era Taoist slays evil spirits with magic spells from yin-yang philosophy. A young mortician carefully prepares bodies for their journey to the afterlife. A teenage girl drinks a cup of life-giving sake, not knowing its irreversible transformative power. These are scenes from the visually enticing, spiritually eclectic media of Japanese movies and anime. The narratives of courageous heroes and heroines and the myths and legends of deities and their abodes are not just recurring motifs of the cinematic fantasy world. They are pop culture’s representations of sacred subtexts in Japan. Japanese Mythology in Film takes a semiotic approach to uncovering such religious and folkloric tropes and subtexts embedded in popular Japanese movies and anime. Part I introduces film semiotics with plain definitions of terminology. Through familiar cinematic examples, it emphasizes the myth-making nature of modern-day film and argues that semiotics can be used as a theoretical tool for reading film. Part II presents case studies of eight popular Japanese films as models of semiotic analysis. While discussing each film’s use of common mythological motifs such as death and rebirth, its case study also unveils more covert cultural signifiers and folktale motifs, including jizo (a savior of sentient beings) and kori (bewitching foxes and raccoon dogs), hidden in the Japanese filmic text.

Questions of Cinema

Author : Stephen Heath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780253159137
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Questions of Cinema written by Stephen Heath and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is essential reading for anyone concerned with the theoretical discussion of cinema, and ideology in general." -- Semiotica ..". Heath is an antidote to the Cinema 101 worldview." -- Voice Literary Supplement Heath's study of film draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis, semiotics, and Marxism, presenting film as a signifying practice and the cinema as a social institution of meanings.

The Cinema Ideal

Author : Harriet E. Margolis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317928733
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The Cinema Ideal written by Harriet E. Margolis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the model derived from Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, via Marxism and semiotics, of looking at film. It retraces the steps of film theory from ideological criticism of the late ‘60s to spectator studies in 1988 when the book was originally published. Psychoanalysis enables a discussion of the cinema’s role as a social and political force and this book enters a discourse of the politics of representation. Reconstructing discussion of basic issues, the book addresses our instincts and defences in reacting to cinema, the similarity between mental processes and cinematic technique, narrative techniques and the ‘cinematic apparatus’. Importantly, the book concerns itself with the concept of ideology and how the filmviewing experience engages the spectator in a complex net of stimuli presenting representations of an ideal world and the effect of this within film studies.