num_pages: 327
description: "... less about film than about the psychology of the viewing experience."  American FilmEmploying Freudian psychoanalysis, Christian Metz explores the nature of cinematic spectatorship and looks at the operations of meaning in the film text.
language: English
title: Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema. Tr from the French by Ben Brewster. Tr of Le Signifiant Imaginaire
titlecomplete: Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema. Tr from the French by Ben Brewster. Tr of Le Signifiant Imaginaire
genres: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Film, Psychology, Essays, Nonfiction, Theory, Academic
ratings_count: 131
publisher: Indiana Univ Pr