Table of Contents

Introductions A Furious Exactitude: An Overview of Christian Metz's Film Theory Warren Buckland Christian Metz and the Constellation of French Film Journals in the 1960s and 1970s Daniel Fairfax Interviews Works of Christian Metz Frequently Cited in the Interviews 1. Semiology, Linguistics, Cinema: Interview with Christian Metz René Fouque, Elaine Le Grivés, and Simon Luciani 2. Cinema and Semiology: On 'Specificity': Interview with Christian Metz Jean-André Fieschi 3. Interview on Film Semiology Raymond Bellour and Christian Metz 4. Interview with Christian Metz Daniel Percheron and Marc Vernet 5. Round Table on Film Theory Christian Metz, Michel Fano, Jean Paul Simon, and Noël Simsolo 6. Conversation on The Imaginary Signifier and Essais sémiotiques Jean Paul Simon, Marc Vernet, and Christian Metz 7. The Cinematic Apparatus as Social Institution: An Interview with Christian Metz Sandy Flitterman, Bill Guynn, Roswitha Mueller, and Jacquelyn Suter 8. A Seminar with Christian Metz: Cinema, Semiology, Psychoanalysis, History Chaired by Rick Thompson 9. Responses to Hors cadre on The Imaginary Signifier Christian Metz 10. Interview with Christian Metz Michel Marie and Marc Vernet 11. Christian Metz: Interview André Gaudreault 12. An Ethics of Semiology: Interview with Christian Metz André Gardies

About the Author

Warren Buckland is Reader in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author/editor of ten books, including The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory (with Edward Branigan, 2013), Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions (2012), and The Cognitive Semiotics of Film (2000). Daniel Fairfax is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and an editor of the online film journal Senses of Cinema.