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Author Metz, Christian.

Title Language and cinema / by Christian Metz ; translated by Donna Jean Umiker-Sebeok.

Publication Info. The Hague : Mouton, 1974.

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Description 1 online resource (303 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Approaches to semiotics ; 26
Approaches to semiotics ; 26.
Note Title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 23, 2013).
Translation of Langage et cinéma.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical reference and index.
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Contents ""1. Within the Cinema : The Filmic Fact""; ""2. Within the Filmic Fact: The Cinema""; ""2.1. �Cinema� in another sense""; ""2.2. From material to codical homogeneity: a premature conclusion""; ""2.3. The same code in several �language systems�; several codes in the same �language system�""; ""2.4. Cinematic specificity, cinematic language system (I)""; ""2.5. Cinematic-filmic, cinematic-non-filmic, filmic-non-cinematic""; ""3. Film in an Absolute Sense""; ""3.1. �The Film�/�The Cinema�""; ""3.2. The zone common to the film and cinema. Its limits""
""4. Plurality of Cinematic Codes""""4.1. General and particular codes""; ""4.2. Plurality along two axes""; ""4.3. �Cinematic language system� (II)""; ""5. From Code to System; Message to Text""; ""5.1. �The study of films�: two different approaches""; ""5.2. Code/singular system""; ""5.3. General and particular codes (II)""; ""5.4. Terminological points""; ""5.5. �Structure of the message� or structure of the text?""; ""6. Textual Systems""; ""6.1. The film as a unique totality""; ""6.2. The system of the film as displacement""
""6.3. Cinematic and extra-cinematic: from duality to mixture""""6.4. Readings: several textual systems for a single text""; ""7. Textuality and �Singularity�""; ""7.1. Filmic texts smaller or larger than a film""; ""7.2. Group of films and class of films""; ""7.3. From �particular code� to sub-code (III)""; ""7.4. The pansemic tendency of certain figures""; ""7.5. Code/sub-code (IV)""; ""7.6. The systemic and the textual""; ""7.7. Textuality and generality""; ""7.8. �Film� in the absolute sense (II)""; ""8. Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic""; ""8.1. The syntagmatic and the textual""
""8.2. The syntagmatic and the paradigmatic syntagmatics and paradigmatics""; ""8.3. Degrees of preexistence of the �object studied�""; ""8.4. Circularity of paradigmatics and syntagmatics""; ""8.5. Syntagmatic and consecutive""; ""8.6. Paradigmatic and syntagmatic in textual systems""; ""9. The Problem of Distinctive Units""; ""9.1. Several types of minimal units in the same text""; ""9.2. Several types of cinematic units in the film""; ""9.3. The determination of minimal units and the overall study of grammar""; ""9.4. Several types of extra-cinematic units in the film""
""9.5. Distinctive units: diversity of size""""9.6. Distinctive units: diversity of form""; ""9.7. Critique of the notion �cinematic sign�""; ""10. �Specific/Non-Specific�: Relativity of the Classification Used""; ""10.1. �Form/material/substance� according to Hjelmslev""; ""10.2. Semiotic interference between language systems""; ""10.3. Distinctive features of the material of the signifier""; ""10.4. The intermixing of specificities: Multiple specificity, degrees of specificity, modes of specificity""; ""10.5 Cinema and television""
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Motion pictures and language.
Motion pictures and language.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Umiker-Sebeok, Donna Jean.
Added Title Langage et cinéma. English
Other Form: Online version: Metz, Christian. Langage et cinéma. English. Language and cinema. The Hague, Mouton, 1974 (OCoLC)574747159
ISBN 9783110816044 (electronic book)
3110816040 (electronic book)