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Metz - "the time has come for a semiotics of the cinema"
Do films need a language system of signs used for inter-communication?
Despite Metz's initial protestations, ultimately, yes.
Semiotics increasingly became a 'political science' in Film Studies - signs initiated with ideological motivations - structuralist framework.
Text --> message --> code = singular system
Codes as film grammar.
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Do films need a language system of signs used for inter-communication?
Despite Metz's initial protestations, ultimately, yes.
Semiotics increasingly became a 'political science' in Film Studies - signs initiated with ideological motivations - structuralist framework.
Text --> message --> code = singular system
Codes as film grammar.
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Spectator as a transcendental subject rather than object as well as identifying in turn with the camera eye or with the director's point of view.
Cinematic scopic regime - cinema relies on voyeurism in its pure state - keyhole effect.
Cinematographic signifier - Metz reviews analogies between film and dream - and analyses functioning of metaphor and metonymy relating them to mechanisms of condensation and displacement in Freud's analysis of the dreamwork.