The Imaginary Signifier
Title | The Imaginary Signifier PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Metz |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780253203809 |
"... 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.
Psychoanalysis and Cinema: the Imaginary Signifier
Title | Psychoanalysis and Cinema: the Imaginary Signifier PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Metz |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 1983-06-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780333366400 |
The Signifier Pointing at the Moon
Title | The Signifier Pointing at the Moon PDF eBook |
Author | Raul Moncayo |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2018-05-08 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0429907958 |
Within the context of a careful review of the psychology of religion and prior non-Lacanian literature on the subject, Raul Moncayo builds a bridge between Lacanian psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism that steers clear of reducing one to the other or creating a simplistic synthesis between the two. Instead, by making a purposeful "One-mistake" of "unknown knowing", this book remains consistent with the analytic unconscious and continues in the splendid tradition of Bodhidharma who did not know "Who" he was and told Emperor Wu that there was no merit in building temples for Buddhism. Both traditions converge on the teaching that "true subject is no ego", or on the realisation that a new subject requires the symbolic death or deconstruction of imaginary ego-identifications. Although Lacanian psychoanalysis is known for its focus on language and Zen is considered a form of transmission outside the scriptures, Zen is not without words while Lacanian psychoanalysis stresses the senseless letter of the Real or of a jouissance written on and with the body.
Questions of Cinema
Title | Questions of Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Heath |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780253159137 |
"It is essential reading for anyone concerned with the theoretical discussion of cinema, and ideology in general." -- Semiotica ..". Heath is an antidote to the Cinema 101 worldview." -- Voice Literary Supplement Heath's study of film draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis, semiotics, and Marxism, presenting film as a signifying practice and the cinema as a social institution of meanings.
Christian Metz and the Codes of Cinema
Title | Christian Metz and the Codes of Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Margrit Tröhler |
Publisher | Film Theory in Media History |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Film criticism |
ISBN | 9789089648921 |
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.
Conversations with Christian Metz
Title | Conversations with Christian Metz PDF eBook |
Author | Warren Buckland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Film criticism |
ISBN | 9789089648259 |
This volume offers readable summaries, elaborations, and explanations of his sometimes complex and demanding theories of film.
Film Language
Title | Film Language PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Metz |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780226521305 |
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