Semiotics and documentary film : the living sign in the cinema / by Hing Tsang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsang, Hing, author.

Series:

Semiotics, communication and cognition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics.

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

x, 198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston ; Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2013.

Summary:

This volume reintroduces Peircean ideas within documentary studies. Taking from Peirce's semeiotic and parallel ideas within recent visual anthropology, it defends documentary practice as a vital form of human inquiry. Through the work of three renowned filmmakers - Jon Jost, Johan van der Keuken, and Rithy Panh - this book attempts to reassert human agency within a global age dominated by skepticism and an unquestioning subservience to mechanistic military techno-culture. The Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition This series focuses on the state of contemporary semiotics and its current applications. Each volume in the series places its topic within a general understanding of today's semiotics, an interdisciplinary field which investigates the application of sign theory not only to culture, but also to nature. The books are accessibly written and communicate with an academic readership that is not overspecialized. Book jacket.

Contents:

Peirce's semeiotic and the living sign

Parallel developments and divergences

Rupture, dissent, and conflict in the cinema of Jon Jost

War and biophilia in the cinema of Johann van der Keuken

Terror and love in the cinema of Rithy Panh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781614515722

1614515727

OCLC:

857356607