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The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema

by Christian Metz

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... 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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Canonical title*: De beeldsignifikant : psychoanalyse en film
Original title: Le signifiant imaginaire. Psychanalyse et cinéma

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Published: 1977
Genres: Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 791.43019
LCC: PN1995 .M45313

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