Toward a Semiotics of Chinese Cinema (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783639121971)

This work is to initiate a semiotic re-examination of Chinese cinema. Such re-examination was built upon the concepts of Semiotics as conceived of by Charles Sanders Peirce. In addition, in constructing a semiotic approach to aesthetic issues in general and to cinema in particular, the author incorporated aesthetic theories from American Pragmatism and Kenneth Burke's concepts of poetic process. In forming a semiotic approach specific to cinema, the author relied primarily on Gilles Deleuze's cinematic theories. This book brings a Chinese perspective into dialectic contact with Western thought, hoping at once to enrich the scope of a general Semiotics of Cinema and to initiate a semiotic analysis of Chinese Cinema. This theorizing is to converse with scholars who are interested in Semiotics in general and film Semiotics in particular; furthermore, it should be especially informative and useful to researchers of Chinese Cinema.

Author: Kuang-Jung Chen
ISBN-10: 363912197X
ISBN-13: 9783639121971
Publisher: VDM Verlag
Language: English
Published: 02/24/2009
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d