 | Annette Kuhn - Science fiction films - 1990 - 254 pages
...least it does not present them to us with all the really perceived detail that the screen does. . . . The unique position of the cinema lies in this dual...unreality to an unusual degree, and from the very outset. 1 1 In the cinema, therefore, a dual and contradictory status is accorded its images and sounds. These... | |
 | Kaja Silverman - Masculinity - 1992 - 468 pages
...lack. They thus conform with great precision to Metz's characterization of the cinematic signifier as "unaccustomed perceptual wealth, but at the same time stamped with unreality to an unusual degree."77 (Figure 2-23). This foregrounding of the "unreality" of the word-pictures might seem to... | |
 | Gavriel Moses - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 366 pages
...my translation). See also Metz (1975:47-48) and (in French) Metz (1977:65), where he points out that "the unique position of the cinema lies in this dual...its signifier: unaccustomed perceptual wealth, but unusually profoundly stamped with unreality from its very beginning. More than the other arts, or in... | |
 | Lloyd Michaels - Performing Arts - 1998 - 216 pages
...representation and identification that have proven so problematic in theoretical discussions of character. The unique position of the cinema lies in this dual...unique way, the cinema involves us in the imaginary. (45) Against the "unaccustomed perceptual wealth" of the magnified image of a cowboy firing his gun... | |
 | Sean Redmond - Performing Arts - 2004 - 374 pages
...least it does not present them to us with all the really perceived detail that the screen does ... The unique position of the cinema lies in this dual...unreality to an unusual degree, and from the very outset." In the cinema, therefore, a dual and contradictory status is accorded its ¡mages and sounds. These... | |
 | Joshua Hirsch - History - 2004 - 240 pages
...used to create a sense of witnessing history. On the other hand, as Christian Metz argued, "more than other arts, or in a more unique way, the cinema involves us in the imaginary." 15 Both formally and technologically (through the projection of giant images in the dark), film imitates... | |
 | Susan Courtney - History - 2005 - 404 pages
...cinematic signifier, a signifier marked at once by an "unaccustomed perceptual wealth" of sound and image, "but at the same time stamped with unreality to an unusual degree" in a medium that is nothing but light and shadow. ° Despite this apparent opposition, however, Metz... | |
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The unique position of the cinema lies in this dual character of its signifier: unaccustomed perceptual wealth, but at the same time stamped with unreality to an unusual degree, and from the very outset. 