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Book SynopsisThe late work of an avant-garde theorist adds clarity to the phenomenology of new media.
Trade ReviewMetz's generous personality is captured well here, something that no other English translation has accomplished. It is both an extension of Metz's path-breaking work in bringing the concepts and methods of linguistics and psychoanalysis to the study of film, and the articulation of fundamentally new directions in his thought. -- D. N. Rodowick, University of Chicago At long last, Christian Metz's final book, Impersonal Enunciation, is available in English, expertly translated by Cormac Deane. Metz's non-deictic, reflexive theory of enunciation, in which the film text continually references itself, constitutes the culmination of his lifelong semiotic analysis of the cinema. -- Warren Buckland, author of The Cognitive Semiotics of Film In this splendid new translation... Metz shines through, avoiding jargon, using richly illustrative examples, and writing with a persuasive voice.Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly Metz returns to and develops the question of what speaks in the moving image: code, or something else. In meticulous and enlightening readings of films, television shows, and changing ways of watching them, Metz's posthumous text is a true ghost in the machine, a revenant who reopens many of the arguments we thought were closed and makes audiovisual media matter, once more, in every sense of the word -- Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of London The moments of poetry, wit, and charming cinephilia scattered throughout make this work as engaging as it is enlightening... Essential. CHOICE
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Translator's Introduction Part I: Humanoid Enunciation 1. Humanoid Enunciation Part II: Some Landscapes of Enunciation (A Guided Tour) 2. The Voice of Address in the Image: The Look to Camera 3. The Voice of Address Outside the Image: Related Sounds 4. Written Modes of Address 5. Secondary Screens, or Squaring the Rectangle 6. Mirrors 7. "Exposing the Apparatus" 8. Film(s) Within Film 9. Subjective Images, Subjective Sounds, "Point of View" 10. The I-voice and Related Sounds 11. The Oriented Objective System: Enunciation and Style 12. "Neutral" (?) Images and Sounds Part III: A Walk in the Clouds (Taking Theoretical Flight) 13. (Taking Theoretical Flight) Afterword, by Dana Polan Notes On the Shelf: Works Cited Index
