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The Imaginary Signifier

Psychoanalysis and the Cinema

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psychoanalysis, theory
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Indiana University Press
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English
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Paperback340 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)
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0-253-20380-5
978-0-253-20380-9
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" . . . less about film than about the psychology of the viewing experience." —American Film

Employing Freudian psychoanalysis, Christian Metz explores the nature of cinematic spectatorship and looks at the operations of meaning in the film text.

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