6. Conversation on The Imaginary Signifier and Essais Sémiotiques

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Film Theory in Media History 2
3. Contents 5
4. Acknowledgements 7
5. Publication details 9
6. Introductions
7. A Furious Exactitude: An Overview of Christian Metz’s Film Theory 13
8. Christian Metz and the Constellation of French Film Journals in the 1960s and 1970s 33
9. Interviews
10. Works of Christian Metz frequently cited in the interviews 53
11. 1. Semiology, Linguistics, Cinema: Interview with Christian Metz 55
12. 2. On ‘Specificity’: Interview with Christian Metz 69
13. 3. Interview on Film Semiology 83
14. 4. Interview with Christian Metz 109
15. 5. Round Table on Film Theory 145
16. 6. Conversation on The Imaginary Signifier and Essais Sémiotiques 161
17. 7. The Cinematic Apparatus as Social Institution – An Interview with Christian Metz 179
18. 8. A Seminar with Christian Metz: Cinema, Semiology, Psychoanalysis, History 205
19. 9. Responses to Hors Cadre on The Imaginary Signifier 231
20. 10. Interview with Christian Metz 243
21. 11. Christian Metz: Interview 275
22. 12. Twenty-Five Years Later: An Assessment. An Ethics of Semiology 283
23. Index 309