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Divided into two movements, the book first examines the psychological anchoring of cinema through Freudian concepts: voyeurism, fetishism, and the desiring gaze of the spectator. In the second, Metz turns to the mechanisms of meaning within the film text itself image, sound, metaphor, and metonymy to articulate how cinema generates the illusion of presence while functioning as an absent object.
Metzs writing, dense yet lyrical, marks a decisive shift from semiologys linguistic models toward what he calls a second semiotics, centred on subjectivity, fantasy, and the imaginary. This volume remains indispensable to anyone concerned with how we see, dream, and signify through moving images.
