Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema

Represents a pioneering attempt to apply the insights of structural linguistics to an area -- film -- which has a definite language of its own.

A pioneer in the field, Christian Metz applies insights of structural linguistics to the language of film.

"The semiology of film . . . can be held to date from the publication in 1964 of the famous essay by Christian Metz, 'Le cinéma: langue ou langage?'"-Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Times Literary Supplement"Modern film theory begins with Metz."-Constance Penley, coeditor of Camera Obscura

"Any consideration of semiology in relation to the particular field signifying practice of film passes inevitably through a reference to the work of Christian Metz.... The first book to be written in this field, [Film Language] is important not merely because of this primacy but also because of the issues it raises... issues that have become crucial to the contemporary argument." -Stephen Heath, Screen

Book is foxed on outer pages but in very good condition for age.