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Christian Metz (French:; December 12, 1931 – September 7, 1993) was a French film theorist, best known for pioneering film semiotics, the application of theories of signification to the cinema. During the 1970s, his work had a major impact on film theory in France, Britain, Latin America, and the United States. [ 1 ]
According to Christian Metz, “The study of connotation brings us closer to the notion of the cinema as an art (the “seventh art”).” [2] Within connotations, paradigmatic connotations exist, which would be a shot that is being compared with its unrealized companions in the paradigm. A low angle shot of a rose conveys a sense that the ...
Christian Metz may refer to: Christian Metz (theorist) (1931–1993), French film theorist, known for pioneering film semiotics Christian Metz (Inspirationalist) (1794–1867), German-born migrant to the U.S. who set up a religious sect
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The focus of this theoretical film debate was the viewer subject and its relationship to cinema. The starting point was formed by the considerations of the French theorist Jean Louis Baudry and the writings on film theory by Christian Metz, whose Le signifiant imaginaire. Psychoanalyse et cinéma (1977, dt.: The imaginary signifier.
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Louis Althusser - Marxist writer who wrote about mirror mis-recognition and the role it plays in forming identities, to explore the relationship between cinema goers and film texts. Jean-Louis Comolli; Christian Metz - argued that viewing film is only possible by voyeurism (or ‘scopophilia’: Greek for love of looking), best seen in silent film.