Imagined signifiers psychoanalysis and film

Author: Christian Metz
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: "The Imaginary Signifier" marks the birth of second cinema semiotics. Metz's film semiotics has been recognized as reaching the pinnacle of world film theory. Film is too easy to understand, which also makes it too difficult to analyze. A film is too hard to explain because it is too easy to understand. — Christian Metz In film semiotics theory, Metz's works are complete and influential. — Nick Browne