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Book Christian Metz and the Reality of Film

Download or read book Christian Metz and the Reality of Film written by George Agis Cozyris and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christian Metz and the Codes of Cinema

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.

Book Psychoanalysis and Cinema  the Imaginary Signifier

Download or read book Psychoanalysis and Cinema the Imaginary Signifier written by Christian Metz and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1983-06-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Film Language

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  • Author : Christian Metz
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780226521305
  • Pages : 290 pages

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

Book The reality of film

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  • Author : Richard Rushton
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2013-07-19
  • ISBN : 1847797784
  • Pages : 307 pages

Download or read book The reality of film written by Richard Rushton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In formulating a notion of filmic reality, The Reality of Film offers a novel way of understanding our relationship to cinema. It argues that cinema need not be understood in terms of its capacities to refer to, reproduce or represent reality, but should be understood in terms of the kinds of realities it has the ability to create. The Reality of Film investigates filmic reality by way of six key film theorists: André Bazin, Christian Metz, Stanley Cavell, Gilles Deleuze, Slavoj Žižek and Jacques Rancière. In doing so, it provides comprehensive introductions to each of these thinkers, while also debunking many myths and misconceptions about them. Along the way, a notion of filmic reality is formed that radically reconfigures our understanding of cinema. This book is essential reading for film scholars, students and philosophers of film, while it will also appeal to graduate students and specialists in other fields.

Book The Real of Reality  The Realist Turn in Contemporary Film Theory

Download or read book The Real of Reality The Realist Turn in Contemporary Film Theory written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reality has become an increasingly prominent topic in contemporary philosophy. The book’s contributors are responding to the challenge to use the philosophically underexplored potential of film to disclose what the editors propose to call “the real of reality.”

Book Language and Cinema

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:

Book Conversations with Christian Metz

Download or read book Conversations with Christian Metz written by Warren Buckland and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers readable summaries, elaborations, and explanations of his sometimes complex and demanding theories of film.

Book Conversations with Christian Metz

Download or read book Conversations with Christian Metz written by Daniel Fairfax and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1968 to 1991 the acclaimed film theorist Christian Metz wrote several remarkable books on film theory: Essais sur la signification au cinema, tome 1 et 2; Langage et cinéma; Le signifiant imaginaire; and L'Enonciation impersonnelle. These books set the agenda of academic film studies during its formative period. Metz's ideas were taken up, digested, refined, reinterpreted, criticized, and sometimes dismissed, but rarely ignored. This volume collects and translates into English for the first time a series of interviews with Metz, who offers readable summaries, elaborations, and explanations of his sometimes complex and demanding theories of film. He speaks informally of the most fundamental concepts that constitute the heart of film theory as an academic discipline - concepts borrowed from linguistics, semiotics, rhetoric, narratology, and psychoanalysis. Within the colloquial language of the interview, we witness Metz's initial formation, development, and application of these concepts. The interviewers act as curious readers who pose probing questions to Metz about his books, and seek clarification and elaboration of his key concepts. Metz also reveals a series of curious and unusual insights, including the contents of his unpublished (and now apparently 'lost') manuscript, the social networks operative in the French intellectual community during the 1970s and 1980s, Metz's relation to the Filmology movement, and his views on Gilles Deleuze's film theory.

Book The Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema

Download or read book The Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema written by Jean Mitry and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mitry was driven to explain the "why," "what if," and "how come" experiences that resulted after the "wow" experience in cinema. His theory uses psychology and phenomenology to understand how cinema can elevate the viewer from the everyday world.

Book Theory of Film

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  • Author : Siegfried Kracauer
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780691037042
  • Pages : 492 pages

Download or read book Theory of Film written by Siegfried Kracauer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the distinctive qualities of the cinematic medium. It includes an introduction which examines "Theory of Film" in the context of Kracauer's extensive film criticism from the 1920s, and provides a framework for appreciating its significance in contemporary film theory.

Book Apparatus

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  • Author : Roland Barthes
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1981-12
  • ISBN : 9780934378222
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Apparatus written by Roland Barthes and published by . This book was released on 1981-12 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cinema Approaching Reality

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  • Author : Victor Fan
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2015-03-20
  • ISBN : 1452944067
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book Cinema Approaching Reality written by Victor Fan and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cinema Approaching Reality, Victor Fan brings together, for the first time, Chinese and Euro-American film theories and theorists to engage in critical debates about film in Shanghai and Hong Kong from the 1920s through 1940s. His point of departure is a term popularly employed by Chinese film critics during this period, bizhen, often translated as “lifelike” but best understood as “approaching reality.” What these Chinese theorists mean, in Fan’s reading, is that the cinematographic image is not a form of total reality, but it can allow spectators to apprehend an effect as though they had been there at the time when an event actually happened. Fan suggests that the phrase “approaching reality” can help to renegotiate an aporia (blind spot) that influential French film critic André Bazin wrestled with: the cinematographic image is a trace of reality, yet reality is absent in the cinematographic image, and the cinema makes present this absence as it reactivates the passage of time. Fan enriches Bazinian cinematic ontology with discussions on cinematic reality in Republican China and colonial Hong Kong, putting Western theorists—from Bazin and Kracauer to Baudrillard, Agamben, and Deleuze—into dialogue with their Chinese counterparts. The result is an eye-opening exploration of the potentialities in approaching cinema anew, especially in the photographic materiality following its digital turn.

Book The Imaginary Signifier

Download or read book The Imaginary Signifier written by Christian Metz and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... less about film than about the psychology of the viewing experience." --American Film Employing Freudian psychoanalysis, Christian Metz explores the nature of cinematic spectatorship and looks at the operations of meaning in the film text.

Book Film  Theory and Philosophy

Download or read book Film Theory and Philosophy written by Felicity Colman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy, and in particular continental philosophy, has provided a conceptual underpinning for cinema since its beginnings, especially in the development of cinematic aesthetics. In its turn, film has rethought the abstractions of space and time and the categories of sex and gender and has created new concepts which illuminate phenomenology, metaphysics and epistemology. "Film and Philosophy" brings together leading scholars to provide a detailed overview of the key thinkers who have shaped the field of film philosophy. The thinkers include continental and 'post-continental' philosophers, analytic philosophers, film-makers, film reviewers, sociologists, and cultural theorists.The essays reveal how philosophy can be applied to film analysis and how film can be used to illustrate philosophical problems. But more importantly, the essays explore how film has shaped what philosophy thinks and how philosophy has lead to a reappraisal of film. The book will prove an invaluable reference and guide to readers interested in a deeper understanding of the issues and insights presented by film philosophy." Film and Philosophy" includes essays on: Hugo Munsterberg, Vilem Flusser, Siegfried Kracauer, Theodor Adorno, Antonin Artaud, Henri Bergson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Levinas, Andre Bazin, Roland Barthes, Serge Daney, Jean-Luc Godard, Stanley Cavell, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Sarah Kofman, Paul Virilio, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Fredric Jameson, Felix Guattari, Raymond Bellour, Christian Metz, Julia Kristeva, Laura Mulvey, Homi Bhabha, Slavoj Zizek, Stephen Heath, Alain Badiou, Jacques Ranciere, Leo Bersani, Giorgio Agamben, and Michel Chion.

Book Post war Cinema and Modernity

Download or read book Post war Cinema and Modernity written by John Orr and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both professors at the U. of Edinburgh (Scotland), Orr (sociology) and Taxidou (English) have collected a diverse selection of previously published material on film, much of it controversial and challenging, to produce a reader for the undergraduate classroom. The readings are divided into theory and form, form and process, and international cinema. The selected authors (who include such thinkers and directors as Andre Bazin, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gilles Deleuze, Fredric Jameson, Paul Virilio, Duncan Petrie, Susan Sontag, and Laura Mulvey) mull questions of film and modernity, film and poetry, film and postmodernity, cinematic perception, changing film technology, and the social and national context of international films. c. Book News Inc.

Book Movies and Methods

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  • Author : Bill Nichols
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1985-09-06
  • ISBN : 0520054091
  • Pages : 770 pages

Download or read book Movies and Methods written by Bill Nichols and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1985-09-06 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original Movies and Methods volume (1976) captured the dynamic evolution of film theory and criticism into an important new discipline, incorporating methods from structuralism, semiotics, and feminist thought. Now there is again ferment in the field. Movies and Methods, Volume II, captures the developments that have given history and genre studies imaginative new models and indicates how feminist, structuralist, and psychoanalytic approaches to film have achieved fresh, valuable insights. In his thoughtful introduction, Nichols provides a context for the paradoxes that confront film studies today. He shows how shared methods and approaches continue to stimulate much of the best writing about film, points to common problems most critics and theorists have tried to resolve, and describes the internal contraditions that have restricted the usefulness of post-structuralism. Mini-introductions place each essay in a larger context and suggest its linkages with other essays in the volume. A great variety of approaches and methods characterize film writing today, and the final part conveys their diversity—from statistical style analysis to phenomenology and from gay criticisms to neoformalism. This concluding part also shows how the rigorous use of a broad range of approaches has helped remove post-structuralist criticism from its position of dominance through most of the seventies and early eighties. The writings collected in this volume exhibit not only a strong sense of personal engagement but als a persistent awareness of the social importance of the cinema in our culture. Movies and Methods, Volume II, will prove as invaluable to the serious student of cinema as its predecessor; it will be an essential reference work for years to come.