This book is a masterpiece of film second semiotics, and it is also a masterpiece with great scientific weight in the history of film theory.

It is devoted to the study of movies, a language without a word list, and its method combines semiotics and psychoanalysis to combine them in a dazzling way.

The combination of the words "imagination" and "signifier" in the title clearly declares the two methodologies followed by this book, and the concept of "imagination signifier" accurately describes the media essence of the film.

Different from the ideological film theory, this book pays more attention to revealing the unconscious mechanism behind the universal language ideographic activities.

After the study of film combination paragraphs, the curtain of film rhetoric research was opened. It calmly pushes rhetoric back to the category of ordinary language. Rhetoric, like other language activities (such as narration), can follow all the laws of the general ideographic mechanism at a more abstract level, rather than being expressed in words.

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Christian metz,

193 1 was born in France, 197 1 received a doctorate in linguistics. He is a proté gé of the semioticist roland barthes. He has taught at the University of Paris and the three major film and television research institutes in Paris.

The indelible contribution of Metz's film semiotics lies in that it applied the western humanities in the 20th century to the study of film theory to the greatest extent, and completed the final argument that "film is a language".

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