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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tröhler, Margrit, editor.

Kirsten, Guido, 1979- editor.

Series:

Film theory in media history

Film theory in media history.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metz, Christian.

Film criticism.

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Semiotics.

Physical Description:

484 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Film semiology and beyond

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018].

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.

Contents:

1. Christian Metz and film semiology: dynamics within and on the edges of the 'model' - an introduction / Margrit Tröhler

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 / André 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-Lété

16. Semiotics, science, and cinephilia: Christian Metz's last book, L'énonciation 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 Tröhler

23. 'I never expected semiology to thrill the masses' - interview with Christian Metz / Dominique Blüher and Margrit Tröhler

Postscript. Conclusion / Christian Metz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9789089648921

9089648925

OCLC:

979567822