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Christian Metz (1931±1993) Contemporary film theory as we know it today could not have developed without Christian Metz. Initially trained in 1960s structural linguistics, Metz used research methods from the emerging `human sciences' to pursue an understanding of cinema. His work had immense influence among scholars and students for whom the new epistemologies demanded new academic disciplines. In Paul Willemen's assessment, Metz formulated `the most systematic account of the location of language in cinema within a semiological model' (Heath and Mellencamp 1983, 147). Much of 1970s psychoanalytic film theory

Author

Marcia Butzel

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN