1 WITHIN THE CINEMA: THE FILMIC FACT

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. CONTENTS 5
3. 1 WITHIN THE CINEMA: THE FILMIC FACT 9
4. 2 WITHIN THE FILMIC FACT: THE CINEMA 22
5. 3 ‘FILM’ IN AN ABSOLUTE SENSE 50
6. 4 PLURALITY OF CINEMATIC CODES 61
7. 5 FROM CODE TO SYSTEM; MESSAGE TO TEXT 70
8. 6 TEXTUAL SYSTEMS 91
9. 7 TEXTUALITY AND ‘SINGULARITY’ 121
10. 8 PARADIGMATIC AND SYNTAGMATIC 161
11. 9 THE PROBLEM OF DISTINCTIVE UNTTS 184
12. 10 ‘SPECIFIC/NON-SPECIFIC’: RELATIVITY OF THE CLASSIFICATION RETAINED 208
13. 11 CINEMA AND WRITING 254
14. CONCLUSION: CINEMATIC LANGUAGE SYSTEM AND FILMIC WRITING 285
15. SUBJECT INDEX 295
16. INDEX OF NAMES 302
17. INDEX OF FILMS 304