Warren Buckland

Cognitive Semiotics of Film (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, Warren Buckland argues that the conflict between cognitive film theory and contemporary film theory is unproductive. Examining and developing the work of 'cognitive film semiotics', a neglected branch of film theory that combines the insights of cognitive science with those of linguistics and semiotics, he investigates Michel Colin's cognitive semantic theory of film; Francesco Casetti and Christian Metz's theories of film enunciation; Roger Odin's cognitive-pragmatic film theory; and Michel Colin and Dominique Chateau's cognitive studies of film syntax, which are viewed within the framework of Noam Chomsky's transformational generative grammar. Presenting a survey of cognitive film semiotics, this study also re-evaluates the film semiotics of the 1960s, highlights the weaknesses of American cognitive film theory, and challenges the move toward 'post-theory' in film studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511034725
• Artikelnr.: 38194898

Autorenporträt

Warren Bucklandis Reader in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Among the books he has authored are: Studying Contemporary American Film (with Thomas Elsaesser); the best-selling Teach Yourself Film Studies; The Cognitive Semiotics of Film; and The Film Spectator. He also edits the journal The New Review of Film and Television Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgements
1. The cognitive turn in film theory
2. The body on screen and in frame: film and cognitive semantics
3. Not what is seen through the window but the window itself: reflexivity, enunciation and film
4. The institutional context: a semio-pragmatic approach to fiction and documentary film
5. All in the mind? The cognitive status of film grammar
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography of works cited
Index.