03697nam 2200649 450 991081513640332120230803031833.01-61451-411-910.1515/9781614514114(CKB)2670000000491641(EBL)1192979(OCoLC)862746333(SSID)ssj0001041471(PQKBManifestationID)11672960(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001041471(PQKBWorkID)11045279(PQKB)10046118(MiAaPQ)EBC1192979(DE-B1597)212769(OCoLC)865071634(DE-B1597)9781614514114(Au-PeEL)EBL1192979(CaPaEBR)ebr10811262(CaONFJC)MIL806666(EXLCZ)99267000000049164120131211h20132013 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrSemiotics and documentary film the living sign in the cinema /Hing TsangBoston ;Berlin :De Gruyter Mouton,[2013]©20131 online resource (210 p.)Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] ;11Description based upon print version of record.1-61451-572-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Acknowledgements --Contents --List of tables and figures. Notes on citations and tables --Preface --1 Peirce's Semeiotic and the Living Sign --2 Parallel Developments and Divergences --3 Rupture, Dissent, and Conflict in the Cinema of Jon Jost --4 War and biophilia in the cinema of Johan van der Keuken --5 Terror and love in the cinema of Rithy Panh --Conclusion --References --IndexSemiotics and Documentary Film: The Living Sign in the Cinema engages with very vital problems posed by Peirce's philosophy in an innovative and inter-disciplinary fashion by examining how documentary film practice can engage with the question of emergent human agency within a wider biosphere shared by human animals and non-human animals alike. The book is in many ways a celebration of human inquiry, taking liberally from Peirce's semeiotic and parallel ideas within recent visual anthropology. Through an analysis of the work of three renowned filmmakers - Jon Jost, Johan Van der Keuken, and Rithy Panh - Semiotics and Documentary Film: The Living Sign in the Cinema reasserts human agency within a global age, dominated by philosophical scepticism and an unquestioning subservience to mechanistic military techno-culture. The author argues that an approach to documentary inquiry, broadly derived from Peirce's sign theory, phenomenology, and overall philosophical outlook, has strong advantages over a temporal formal approaches derived from Saussurean semiology. Nevertheless, this project is also both critical and self-critical. It also bears direct testament to the many tumultuous and life-destroying events of the late 20th century and reminds us of the moral and philosophical problems which we are still grappling with in the early 21st century. Hence - the Living Sign.Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]Documentary filmsSemioticsDocumentary Film.Semiotics.Documentary films.Semiotics.070.1/8014Tsang Hing1614486MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815136403321Semiotics and documentary film3944318UNINA