num_pages: 340
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: The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema
titlecomplete: The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema
genres: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Film, Psychology, Essays, Nonfiction, Theory, Academic
ratings_count: 131
publisher: Indiana University Press