Spaces of Communication

Elements of Semio-Pragmatics

Bibliographic Data

ID18985158
AuthorsRoger Odin (0000-0003-3437-0168, corresponding author), Ségolène Marbach
Year2021
Publication date2021-12-22
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueSpaces of Communication (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherAmsterdam University Press (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.2307/j.ctv24q4zjq
OpenAlexW4200099339
ISBN9789048538669
Open LibraryOL35878740M
LanguageEN
References cited12

"Semio-pragmatics, an approach to the study of film and audiovisual media first proposed by Roger Odin in the early 1980s, shifted the focus from textual analysis to the interaction of text and context and to the institutional modes of framing and reading which shape the viewer’s engagement with the film. A response to an impasse in post-1968 film semiotics and psychoanalytical approaches to film spectatorship, semio-pragmatics contributed significantly to the further development of film studies alongside Cultural Studies, neo-formalism, historical reception studies and the phenomenology of film. Spaces of Communication offers a concise introduction to semio-pragmatics and condenses the intellectual trajectory of one of the foundational figures of film studies into a relatively short and accessible volume. It is a book which testifies to the author’s deep and rich intellectual engagement with a vast array of objects ranging from the classics of"

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