first to apply lacanian and saussurian analysis to a semiotics of cinema

Metz, Christian, trans. by Donna Jean Umiker-Sebeok

Language and Cinema (1974) - inscribed

Paris - The Hague: Mouton, 1974. First English language edition. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth in dust jacket very good copy, jacket lightly used. Inscribed by author on title page. The recipient was a film studies teacher. Metz was a pioneering semiologist, really the first to truly apply the theories of Saussure, Lacan, and even Freud to a semiotics of the cinema. 304 pp. Books inscribed by him are not easy to find. Very Good / very good. Item #H10200

Price: $175.00