The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema
Christian Metz
340 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0253203805
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Language: English
Publish: February 22, 1986
AcademicEssaysFilmNonfictionPhilosophyPsychoanalysisPsychologyTheory
” . . . 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.