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The Imaginary Signifier

Psychoanalysis and the Cinema

by Christian Metz

Type
Essays
Subject
Sociology
Keywords
psychoanalysis, theory
Publishing date
1977
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Language
English
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Physical desc.
Paperback • 340 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)
ISBN-10
ISBN-13
0-253-20380-5
978-0-253-20380-9
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Book Presentation:
" . . . 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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