Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Within the Cinema : The Filmic Fact
  • 2. Within the Filmic Fact: The Cinema
  • 2.1. â€?Cinemaâ€? in another sense
  • 2.2. From material to codical homogeneity: a premature conclusion
  • 2.3. The same code in several â€?language systemsâ€?; several codes in the same â€?language systemâ€?
  • 2.4. Cinematic specificity, cinematic language system (I)
  • 2.5. Cinematic-filmic, cinematic-non-filmic, filmic-non-cinematic
  • 3. Film in an Absolute Sense
  • 3.1. â€?The Filmâ€?/â€?The Cinemaâ€?
  • 3.2. The zone common to the film and cinema. Its limits
  • 4. Plurality of Cinematic Codes4.1. General and particular codes
  • 4.2. Plurality along two axes
  • 4.3. â€?Cinematic language systemâ€? (II)
  • 5. From Code to System; Message to Text
  • 5.1. â€?The study of filmsâ€?: two different approaches
  • 5.2. Code/singular system
  • 5.3. General and particular codes (II)
  • 5.4. Terminological points
  • 5.5. â€?Structure of the messageâ€? or structure of the text?
  • 6. Textual Systems
  • 6.1. The film as a unique totality
  • 6.2. The system of the film as displacement
  • 6.3. Cinematic and extra-cinematic: from duality to mixture6.4. Readings: several textual systems for a single text
  • 7. Textuality and â€?Singularityâ€?
  • 7.1. Filmic texts smaller or larger than a film
  • 7.2. Group of films and class of films
  • 7.3. From â€?particular codeâ€? to sub-code (III)
  • 7.4. The pansemic tendency of certain figures
  • 7.5. Code/sub-code (IV)
  • 7.6. The systemic and the textual
  • 7.7. Textuality and generality
  • 7.8. â€?Filmâ€? in the absolute sense (II)
  • 8. Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic
  • 8.1. The syntagmatic and the textual
  • 8.2. The syntagmatic and the paradigmatic syntagmatics and paradigmatics
  • 8.3. Degrees of preexistence of the â€?object studiedâ€?
  • 8.4. Circularity of paradigmatics and syntagmatics
  • 8.5. Syntagmatic and consecutive
  • 8.6. Paradigmatic and syntagmatic in textual systems
  • 9. The Problem of Distinctive Units
  • 9.1. Several types of minimal units in the same text
  • 9.2. Several types of cinematic units in the film
  • 9.3. The determination of minimal units and the overall study of grammar
  • 9.4. Several types of extra-cinematic units in the film
  • 9.5. Distinctive units: diversity of size9.6. Distinctive units: diversity of form
  • 9.7. Critique of the notion â€?cinematic signâ€?
  • 10. â€?Specific/Non-Specificâ€?: Relativity of the Classification Used
  • 10.1. â€?Form/material/substanceâ€? according to Hjelmslev
  • 10.2. Semiotic interference between language systems
  • 10.3. Distinctive features of the material of the signifier
  • 10.4. The intermixing of specificities: Multiple specificity, degrees of specificity, modes of specificity
  • 10.5 Cinema and television