New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics
Author | : Robert Stam |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2005-07-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781134963171 |
ISBN-13 | : 1134963173 |
Rating | : 4/5 (173 Downloads) |
Download or read book New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics written by Robert Stam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors address key aspects of contemporary semiotic and cultural debate--for example Metz's semiotics, Genette's narratology, the feminism of Mary Ann Doane, and Bakhtinian concepts. The book explores linguistically-oriented terminology in cinema studies; the semiotics of film narrative; the psycho-semiology of the cinema; and intertextuality, discourse, and transtextuality. References to individual films drawn from the work of a wide range of directors including Orson Welles, D.W. Griffiths, Alain Resnais, Jean-Luc Godard, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Cocteau, and Chantal Akerman illustrate th.