Semiotics and Documentary Film: The Living Sign in the Cinema

ISBN-13: 9781614515722 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 210 str.

Hing Tsang

Opis

This volume reintroduces Peircean ideas within documentary studies. Through the work of three renowned filmmakers - Jon Jost, Johan Van der Keuken, and Rithy Panh - this book attempts to reassert human agency within a global age dominated by skepticism and subservience to a mechanistic military techno-culture.

Recenzje

"This book contributes to an important change in the critical discourse surrounding documentary. It offers an intellectually serious and rigorously argued case for a new approach and it engages with an impressive range of sources that cut across the conventional boundaries of scholarship." 
 - Professor Anna Grimshaw, Emory University, co-author of Observational Cinema: Anthropology, Film and the Exploration of Social Life

"Hing Tsang's monograph provides a bridge between documentary and ethnographic film, and phenomenology, pragmatics, and theories of documentary film. It also makes a very important contribution to the field of documentary studies by exploring the specific contribution that has been and is still being made by visual anthropology and by updating and extending the ways in which Peirce's ideas can be seen to be relevant." - Helen Hughes, Senior Lecture in Film Studies, University of Surrey, author of Green Documentary: Contemplation, Irony, Argument

"This book reintroduces key ideas from Peirce's philosophy in a fashion that is accessible for non-specialists. It also provides a detailed and engaging analysis of the work of three world-class filmmakers." - John Berra, Lecturer in Film Studies at Tsinghua University, editor of the Directory of World Cinema: American Independent

O autorze

Hing Tsang, University Campus Suffolk, UK.