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The Cognitive Semiotics of Film

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  • Date Published: May 2007
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521037150

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  • In The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, Warren Buckland argues that the conflict between cognitive film theory and contemporary film theory is unproductive. He examines and develops 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. Presenting a survey of cognitive film semiotics, this study also reevaluates the film semiotics of the 1960s, highlights the weaknesses of American cognitive film theory, and challenges the move toward "post-theory" in film studies.

    • This book advances to the next stage of cognitive film theory
    • It is a survey of neglected European film theorists who combine semiotics with cognitive science
    • An investigation into how Christian Metz's pioneering film semiotics has reached maturation by assimilating concepts from cognitive science, pragmatics and Chomskyan linguistics
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    "Students ans scholars of film at all levels will profit from having this study available in English for the first time. In writing his volume, Buckland drew on cognitive semantic theory of Michel Colin, Francesco Casetti and Christian Metz's theories of film enunciation, Roger Odin's cognitve-pragmatic film and Noam Chomsky's transformational generative grammar, thereby producing a study that will be beyond the average undergraduate. Libraries serving undergraduates will want to consider Mitry's book." Choice

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    • Date Published: May 2007
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521037150
    • length: 188 pages
    • dimensions: 229 x 153 x 13 mm
    • weight: 0.3kg
    • contains: 4 b/w illus.
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    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.

  • Author

    Warren Buckland, Liverpool John Moores University

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