Signs and Meaning in the Cinema"Without doubt, it is the best study of cinema published in English for years." --Cinema "... a major achievement... drawing on the results of aesthetic inquiry--from Shaftesbury and Lessing to Jakobson and the formalists--in order to relate the cinema to wider areas of linguistic theory and theory of art." --Times Literary Supplement |
Contents
Marlene Dietrich frontispiece | 7 |
The auteur theory | 74 |
The semiology of the cinema | 116 |
Conclusion 1972 | 155 |
Booklist | 174 |
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abstract actors American André Bazin arbitrary artist aspect auteur theory avant-garde Battleship Potemkin Bazin Brecht Cheyenne Autumn cinema communication concept consciousness course crazy criticism culture Darling Clementine decoding developed dialectic dimensions director Doniphon Donovan's Reef Eisenstein emotional Ethan Edwards example exist existential bond expression film aesthetics film-making Ford Ford's Godard Hatari Hawks Hawks's Hawksian heroes Hitchcock Hollywood iconic idea important indexical individual interrogate Ivan the Terrible Jakobson Joyce kind linguistic logical meaning Meyerhold modern movement montage myth natural painter painting Peirce Peirce's photographic poets possible problem produce Proletcult Theatre purely Que Viva Mexico reading real world Realism reality Roland Barthes Roman Jakobson Romantic Rossellini Russian Saussure scientific seen semiology sense sequence Shot Liberty Valance signal simply spectator Stanislavsky Sternberg stressed structure symbolic Symbolist thought tion tradition truth verbal language versus Viva Mexico whole words writers on aesthetics writing