Christian Metz

Christian Metz (December 12, 1931 - September/December 7, 1993) was a French film theorist, best known for pioneering the application of Ferdinand de Saussure's theories of semiology to film. During the 1970s, his work had a major impact on film theory in France, Britain, Latin America and the United States. In Film Language: A Semiotics of Cinema, Metz focuses on narrative structure — proposing the "Grand Syntagmatique", a system for categorizin... more

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  • Dec 12, 1931

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  • 1993 (age 61 years)

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