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Film Spectator: From Sign to Mind

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Publisher Comments:

This is the first collection of essays in English to give prominence to the work of European film scholars whose aim is "to understand how film is understood." The Film Spectator raises fundamental issues that have confronted film theory for the past thirty years, but which have never been adequately answered. It gathers together a representative sample of this work, covering the period from the mid-seventies to the present.

Table of Contents

From Sign to Mind: A General Introduction, Thomas Elsaesser

 

Preface, Warren Buckland

 

Section 1: Film Semiology, Transformational Generative Grammar, and Cognitive Science

 

Introduction, Warren Buckland

Towards a Generative Model of Filmic Discourse, Dominque Chateau

The Grande Syntagmatique Revisited, Michel Colin

Film Semiology as a Cognitive Science, Michel Colin

 

Section 2: Film and Enunciation Revisited

 

Introduction, Warren Buckland and Jan Simons

Face to Face, Fancesco Casetti

The Impersonal Enunciation, or the Site of Film, Christian Metz

The Authorized Narrative, François Jost

'Enunciation': From Code to Interpretation, Jan Simons

 

Section 3: The Pragmatic Tendency in the New Film Semiology

 

Introduction, Jan Simons

For a Semio-Pragmatics of Film, Roger Odin

For a Semio-Pragmatic Approach to the Documentary Film, Rogher Odin

The Diegetic Look.  Pragmatics of the Point-of-View Shot, Elena Dagrada

 

Selected Bibliography

Publication Acknoledgements

Film Culture In Transition


Product Details

ISBN:
9789053561317
Subtitle:
From Sign to Mind
Author:
Buckland, Warren
Publisher:
Amsterdam University Press
Subject:
Film - General
Publication Date:
20030421
Binding:
Paper Text
Pages:
258

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