num_pages: 176
description: "Without doubt, it is the best study of cinema published in English for years." ―Cinema "... a major achievement... drawing on the results of aesthetic inquiry―from Shaftesbury and Lessing to Jakobson and the formalists―in order to relate the cinema to wider areas of linguistic theory and theory of art." ―Times Literary Supplement
language: English
title: Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
titlecomplete: Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
genres: Media Tie In, Theory, Philosophy, Film, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 268
publisher: Indiana University Press