Books

  1. The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema
    The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema

  2. The Desire to Desire: The Woman's Film of the 1940s (Theories of Representation & Difference)
    The Desire to Desire: The Woman's Film of the 1940s (Theories of Representation & Difference)

  3. Visual and Other Pleasures
    Visual and Other Pleasures

  4. American Film Musical
    American Film Musical

  5. Indiscretions: Avant-garde Film, Video and Feminism (Midland Books)
    Indiscretions: Avant-garde Film, Video and Feminism (Midland Books)

  6. The Woman at the Keyhole: Feminism and Women's Cinema (Midland Books)
    The Woman at the Keyhole: Feminism and Women's Cinema (Midland Books)

  7. Issues in Feminist Film Criticism (Midland Books)
    Issues in Feminist Film Criticism (Midland Books)

  8. Explorations in Film Theory: Selected Essays from Cine-Tracts
    Explorations in Film Theory: Selected Essays from Cine-Tracts

  9. African Cinema: Politics and Culture (Midland Books)
    African Cinema: Politics and Culture (Midland Books)

  10. Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History
    Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History

  11. The Hollywood Musical
    The Hollywood Musical

  12. Feminisms in the Cinema
    Feminisms in the Cinema

  13. The Incredible Internet Guide to Star Wars
    The Incredible Internet Guide to Star Wars

  14. The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System
    The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System

  15. Japanese Cinema: Encyclopedia - The Sex Films
    Japanese Cinema: Encyclopedia - The Sex Films

  16. Passion of Pier Pado Pasolini
    Passion of Pier Pado Pasolini

  17. The Scorcese Connection
    The Scorcese Connection

  18. Incredibly Strange Films
    Incredibly Strange Films

  19. Struggles for Representation: African American Documentary Film and Video
    Struggles for Representation: African American Documentary Film and Video

  20. Movie Star Homes: The Famous to the Forgotten
    Movie Star Homes: The Famous to the Forgotten

  21. John Ford Made Westerns
    John Ford Made Westerns

  22. How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies
    How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies

  23. The Best of the Superstars 2002
    The Best of the Superstars 2002

  24. Toward Cinema and Its Double: Cross-cultural Mimesis (Arts & Politics of the Everyday S.)
    Toward Cinema and Its Double: Cross-cultural Mimesis (Arts & Politics of the Everyday S.)

  25. The Sounds of Early Cinema
    The Sounds of Early Cinema

The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Psychoanalytic film theory
  • An essential film theory text
The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema
Christian Metz
Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Psychoanalytic film theory.......2000-05-22

Metz's work is generally considered to be essential reading for the study of film theory. When I first read this particular text, I found myself disagreeing with the psychoanalytic interpretation of the relationship that exists between film (the immaginary signifier) and the spectator. My frustration came from the apparent reduction of the cinema down to psychoanalytic terms and ideas that appear to limit our understanding of this complex artistic medium. If the reader agrees with the Lacanian model of the development of the subject, then these problems will not develop, however it seems that this particular interpretation leaves alot of questions unanswered. Putting these disputes aside, I think that this work is monumental because of Metz's penetrating (no pun)insight into the nature of the signifier. Even if the reader does not agree with his particular method of interpretation, his ideas that come from his deep critical examination make the text a very worthwhile one to read.

5 out of 5 stars An essential film theory text.......1999-07-20

Metz attempts to compare the structures of the motion picture with the structure of language. In practice it doesn't always succeed, but this is considered a critical work in the field of film theory.
The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema
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    The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema
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    Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema. Tr from the French by Ben Brewster. Tr of Le Signifiant Imaginaire
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      Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema. Tr from the French by Ben Brewster. Tr of Le Signifiant Imaginaire
      Christian Metz
      Manufacturer: Indiana Univ Pr
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Hardcover

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        The Imaginary Signifier : Psychoanalysis and the Cinema
        Christian; Britton, Celia (translator); Williams, Annwyl (translator) Metz
        Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Hardcover
        ASIN: B000MBOOI6

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