Christian Metz: Psychoanalysis and Cinema

The Imaginary Signifier kuuluu alaotsikko elokuvallisen psykoanalyysin ja yleensä elokuvatutkimuksen historiassa. MacMillanin Language, Discourse, Society -sarjaa 1982/1985. Ranskankielinen alkuteos 1977. Pehmeäkantinen, 327 sivua.

Christian Metz (French: [m?ts]; December 12, 1931 – September 7, 1993) was a French film theorist, best known for pioneering film semiotics, the application of theories of signification to the cinema. He argued that cinema should be analyzed not as a strict language system (''langue''), but rather as a language (''langage'') organized by specific narrative codes. During the 1970s, his work had a major impact on film theory in France, Britain, Latin America, and the United States.[1] As Constance Penley flatly stated in Camera Obscura, "Modern film theory begins with Metz."