Language and Cinema

Christian Metz, Donna Jean Umiker-Sebeok

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9789027926821
• eBook ISBN: 9783110816044
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of 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
• 10.6. Language system as a combination of codes
• 10.7. Non-specific codes. Codes of content and codes of expression
• 10.8. Hjelmslev reconsidered: ‘substance’
• 11. Cinema and writing
• 11.1. Cinema and writing as recordings
• 11.2. Cinema and writing as transmissions
• 11.3. Cinema and writing as ‘printings’
• 11.4. Cinema and writing as ‘compositions’
• 11.5. The cinema in relation to the ‘writings’ of Writing Degree Zero
• 11.6. Cinema and ideography
• Conclusion: Cinematic Language System and Filmic Writing
• References
• Subject index
• Index of Names
• Index of Films