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Film Language A Semiotics of the Cinema Christian Metz 1974 268 pages Complementary Texts Rudolph Arnheim Roland Barthes Graeme Turner Seymour Chatman Robert Stam Laura U. Marks Ann Barry Tammy L Bennington and Geri Gay Gianfranco Bettetini Keywords Film Theory Semiotics and Grammars Theory Copyright © 2000-2007 Isabel Pedersen

Christian Metz is a major theorist of the semiotic approach to film theory. Film Language is a founding work in this field. Robert Stam's work New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics, is a useful resource to help place Christian Metz in the context of film theory.