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Cinema and Semiotic : Peirce and Film Aesthetics, Narration, and Representation

Johannes Ehrat,
P. Johannes Ehrat, SJ

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'Meaning' in cinema is very complex, and the flood of theories that define it have, in certain ways, left cinematic meaning meaningless. Johannes Ehrat's analysis of meaning in cinema has convinced him that what is needed is greater philosophical reflection on the construction of meaning. In Cinema and Semiotic, he attempts to resurrect meaning by employing Charles S. Peirce's theories on semiotics to debate the major contemporary film theories that have diluted it.

Based on Peirce's Semiotic and Pragmatism, Ehrat offers a novel approach to cinematic meaning in three central areas: narrative enunciation, cinematic world appropriation, and cinematic perception. Attempting a comprehensive theory of cinema ? instead of the regional 'middle-ground' theories that function only on certain 'common-sense' assumptions that borrow uncritically from psychophysiology ? Ehrat further demonstrates how a semiotic approach grasps the nature of time, not in a psychological manner, but rather cognitively, and provides a new understanding of the particular filmic sign process that relates a sign to the existence or non-existence of objects. Never before has Peirce been so fruitfully employed for the comprehension of meaning in cinema.

Table of Contents

Contents
Page 8-9

Acknowledgments
Page 10-13

Introduction
Page 14-18

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1 On Signs, Categories, and Reality and How They Relate to Cinema
Page 19-122

-----1.1 The Use of Signs
Page 25-34

-----1.2 The Construction of Meaning
Page 35-41

-----1.3 Investigating Conduct as a Form
Page 42-60

-----1.4 The Categories of Behaviour
Page 61-64

-----1.5 The Categorial Form of Behaviour
Page 65-79

-----1.6 Logic of Relations
Page 80-106

-----1.7 The Metaphysics of Pragmaticistic Semiotic
Page 107-122

2 Semiotic and Its Practical Use for Cinema
Page 123-175

-----2.1 Cinema ‘Is’ a Class of Sign
Page 127-145

-----2.2 The Iconism of Cinema: A first Semiotic Approach
Page 146-158

-----2.3 (From Film Pragmatics to) The Pragmaticism of Cinema
Page 159-175

3 What ‘Is’ Cinema?
Page 176-293

-----3.1 Cinema ‘Is’ Syntagma
Page 182-190

-----3.2 Cinema ‘Is’ Sign Function
Page 191-201

-----3.3 Cinema ‘Is’ Percept
Page 202-224

-----3.4 Cinema ‘Is’ Moving Matter or Time
Page 225-253

-----3.5 What Cinema Becomes: Theory Objects Compared, Reconciled, Rejected
Page 254-258

-----Intermezzo: Cinematic Imagination of Godard’s Je vous salue, Marie
Page 259-293

4 Narration in Film and Film Theory
Page 294-355

-----4.1 The Narratological Question, Peirce, and Cinema
Page 295-297

-----4.2 The Semiotic of Narrative Time
Page 298-324

-----4.3 Cinematic Time
Page 325-330

-----Intermezzo: Two Kinds of Narrative Time in Dreyer’s Ordet
Page 331-355

5 Narration, Time, and Narratologies
Page 356-408

-----5.1 Ricoeur’s Mimesis
Page 357-360

-----5.2 Heidegger’s Ekstasis
Page 361-370

-----5.3 Aristotle’s Poesis
Page 371-381

-----5.4 Greimas’s Semiosis
Page 382-389

-----5.5 Bordwell’s Formalism
Page 390-397

-----5.6 Olmi’s Genesi
Page 398-408

6 Enunciation in Cinema
Page 409-565

-----6.1 Enunciation: From Vagueness to Generality
Page 412-419

-----6.2 Narrative Enunciation
Page 420-445

-----6.3 Rhetorical Enunciation in Cinema: Meaning in Figures
Page 446-467

-----6.4 Aesthetic Enunciation in Film
Page 468-538

-----Epilogue: Two Aesthetic Processes in Cinema
Page 539-565

Conclusion
Page 566-571

Notes
Page 572-659

Bibliography
Page 660-673

Filmography
Page 674-677

Index
Page 678-693

-----A
Page 678-678

-----B
Page 679-679

-----C
Page 680-681

-----D
Page 682-682

-----E
Page 682-682

-----F
Page 683-683

-----G
Page 683-683

-----H
Page 684-684

-----I
Page 684-684

-----J
Page 684-684

-----K
Page 685-685

-----L
Page 685-685

-----M
Page 685-685

-----N
Page 686-686

-----O
Page 686-686

-----P
Page 686-688

-----Q
Page 689-689

-----R
Page 689-689

-----S
Page 690-691

-----T
Page 692-692

-----U
Page 692-692

-----V
Page 692-692

-----W
Page 692-692

-----Z
Page 693-693

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Book Details

Title

Cinema and Semiotic

Subtitle

Peirce and Film Aesthetics, Narration, and Representation

Contributors

Johannes Ehrat,
P. Johannes Ehrat,
SJ

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Publication date

2005-01-01

Pages

x, 682 p.

Print ISBN

9780802039125

eBook ISBN

9781442672956

LC Subjects

Motion pictures - Semiotics., Motion pictures - Aesthetics.

Audience

Professional and scholarly

Series

Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication

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