Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema

by Christian Metz (Author), Christian Metz (Author)

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  1990

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  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 cin ma: 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