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Title

Conversations with Christian Metz : selected interviews on film theory (1970-1991) / edited by Warren Buckland and Daniel Fairfax.

Author

Metz, Christian

Publication

• Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Buckland, Warren
• Fairfax, Daniel

Description

310 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"From 1968 to 1991 the acclaimed film theorist Christian Metz wrote several remarkable books on film theory. These books set the agenda of academic film studies during its formative period. Metz's ideas were taken up, digested, refined, reinterpreted, criticized and sometimes dismissed, but rarely ignored. This volume collects and translates into English a series of interviews with Metz, who offers readable summaries, elaborations, and explanations of his sometimes complex and demanding theories of film. We also discover the contents of his unpublished manuscript on jokes, his relation to Roland Barthes, and the social networks operative in the French intellectual community during the 1970s and 1980s."--

Series Statement

Film theory in media history

Uniform Title

• Interviews. Selections. English
• Film theory in media history.

Alternative Title

Interviews.

Subjects

• Interviews
• Motion pictures > Philosophy
• Film critics > Interviews
• Metz, Christian > Interviews

Genre/Form

Interviews.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Most interviews translated from French to English. A few interviews were originally published in English.

Contents

Introductions: A furious exactitude: an overview of Christian Metz;s film theory / Warren Buckland -- Christian Metz and the constellation of French film journals in the 1960s and the 1970s / Daniel Fairfax -- Interviews: Works of Christian Metz frequently cited in the interviews -- 1. Semiology, linguistics, cinema: interview with Christian Metz / René Fouque, Eliane Le Grivés, and Simon Luciani -- 2. On 'specificity': interview with Christian Metz / Jean-André Fieschi -- 3. Interview on film semiology / Raymond Bellour and Christian Metz -- 4. Interview with Christian Metz / Daniel Percheron and Marc Vernet -- 5. Round table with Christian Metz / Christian Metz, Michel Fano, Jean Paul Simon, and Noël Simsolo -- 6. Conversation on The Imaginary Signifier and Essais Sémiotiques / Christian Metz, Jean Paul Simon, and Marc Vernet -- 7. The cinematic apparatus as social institution - an interview with Christian Metz / Sandy Flitterman, Bill Guynn, Roswitha Mueller, and Jacquelyn Suter -- 8. A seminar with Christian Metz: cinema, semiology, psychoanalysis, history / chaired by Rick Thompson -- 9. Responses to Hors Cadre on The Imaginary Signifier / Christian Metz -- 10. Interview with Christian Metz / Michel Marie and Marc Vernet -- 11. Christian Metz: interview / André Gaudreault -- 12. Twenty-five years later: an assessment : an ethics on semioloy ; interview with Christian Metz / André Gardies.

Call Number

MFL 19-2980

ISBN

• 9789089648259
• 9089648259

LCCN

2017466473

OCLC

1003587392

Author

Metz, Christian, interviewee.

Title

Conversations with Christian Metz : selected interviews on film theory (1970-1991) / edited by Warren Buckland and Daniel Fairfax.

Publisher

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Film theory in media history

Film theory in media history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

Most interviews translated from French to English. A few interviews were originally published in English.

Added Author

Buckland, Warren, editor. Editor

Fairfax, Daniel, editor. Editor

Research Call Number

MFL 19-2980