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Article
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Writing in the 1960s and early 1970s, Christian Metz's work on the cinema favoured systematic exactitude, and was concerned with uprooting film theory from what he saw as the "generalized" approach of the early twentieth century (Andrews 213). Metz thought that a more scientific approach to the cinema was to be found with the question of language, and although this question was metaphorically present since the 1920s [1], Metz was the first to apply modern linguistic models to this problem (Guzzetti 292). What resulted was a methodology of analysis based on the formalism inherent to Ferdinand de Saussure's and Louis Hjelmslev's linguistics. This meant that Metz determined cinema as a "textual system," with the image wholly subordinate to an external structure for its meaningful articulation.
Repository Citation
Dawkins, Roger. "Making Sense of Matter in Deleuze's Conception of Cinema Language." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 2, no. 2, 2002, pp. 1–12. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol2/iss2/3