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Psychoanalysis and Cinema: the Imaginary Signifier (Language, Discourse, Society) - Softcover

Metz, Christian

 
9780333366400: Psychoanalysis and Cinema: the Imaginary Signifier (Language, Discourse, Society)

Synopsis

'In the first half of the book Metz explores a number of aspects of the psychological anchoring of cinema as a social institution...In the second half, he shifts his approach...to look at the operations of meaning in the film text, at the figures of image and sound concatenation. Thus he is led to consideration of metaphor and metonymy in film, this involving a detailed account of these two figures as they appear in psychoanalysis and linguistics.'

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About the Author

CHRISTIAN METZ teaches at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His published works include two volumes of Essais sur la signification au cinema, Langage et cinema and Essais semiotiques. The Translators CELIA BRITTON and ANNWYL WILLIAMS are with the Department of French Studies at the University of Reading. BEN BREWSTER is at the University of Kent at Canterbury. ALFRED GUZZETTI is at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University.

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