New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics

First published in 1992. New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics provides a comprehensive lexicon of semiotic concepts. With sections on linguistics narratology psychoanalysis and intertextuality it constructs an indispensable dictionary for film theory defining over five hundred critical terms. The authors address key aspects of contemporary semiotics and cultural debate while referring to the work of key figures such as Peirce Saussure Derrida Barthes Propp Genette Greimas Kristeva Lacan Metz Bellour Heath Mulvey Johnston Rose Doane Bakhtin and Baudrillard. The semiotic concepts are illustrated by examples drawn from the films of directors such as Welles Dreyer Brunel Godard Hitchcock Varda Akerman and Woody Allen. Although especially geared to the needs of film students New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics should be useful for scholars in all areas of the arts philosophy and literature.