Semiotics and documentary film : the living sign in the cinema / / Hing Tsang

• Autore: Tsang Hing
• Pubblicazione: Boston ; ; Berlin : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (210 p.)
• Disciplina: 070.1/8014
• Soggetto topico: Documentary films; Semiotics
• Soggetto non controllato: Documentary Film; Semiotics
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Semiotics 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Semiotics and documentary film
• ISBN: 1-61451-411-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787776903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]