Stephen Heat, “Difference,” Screen 19 (Autumn 1978), p. 103
“The terrain of representation and representing in which meanings are formed and instituted, offered and possessed, in ‘man’ and ‘woman,’ ‘male’ and ‘female,’ ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine,’ are defined, implicated.”
The relationships between film and society, however remote and tangential it may be
The relationship between film (material of film) and the experience of life from which it derives (directly or indirectly).
To detect certain attitudes, unconscious assumptions, certain psychic styles, modes of perceiving reality
Sociology aims to analyze the social functions of cinema in a particular historical setting.
Its goal is to interpret the socio-political meaning of popular films
The major themes of the most popular French/German films of the 1920s, following WWI (Monaco).
Movies as cultural artifacts, reflections of the group psyche
Popular films as dreamlike reflection of the shared concerns of the audience to which those films appealed.
Social scientific positivism: objective description of institutions and functions, as they belong to a larger, regulated system.
Movie industry as an institution
Individual films as responses to times of social or national crises.
Socio-historical contexts as backdrops against which individual films are evaluated.
Analysis of Viewers
Movie-going ad watching films like book-reading are life practice
The focus of study is not movies, but the spectators who watch them
Interconnections between movie watching (in public or private) and other regular life practice.
What part the movie watching activity occupy in individuals’ lives
Film Theory: Sociology (Representation) Vs. Semiology (Signification)
Research in progress, March 7, 2024
Film Theory: Sociology Vs. Semiology
Representation
Stephen Heat, “Difference,” Screen 19 (Autumn 1978), p. 103
“The terrain of representation and representing in which meanings are formed and instituted, offered and possessed, in ‘man’ and ‘woman,’ ‘male’ and ‘female,’ ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine,’ are defined, implicated.”
The relationships between film and society, however remote and tangential it may be
The relationship between film (material of film) and the experience of life from which it derives (directly or indirectly).
To detect certain attitudes, unconscious assumptions, certain psychic styles, modes of perceiving reality
Sociology aims to analyze the social functions of cinema in a particular historical setting.
Its goal is to interpret the socio-political meaning of popular films
The major themes of the most popular French/German films of the 1920s, following WWI (Monaco).
Movies as cultural artifacts, reflections of the group psyche
Popular films as dreamlike reflection of the shared concerns of the audience to which those films appealed.
Social scientific positivism: objective description of institutions and functions, as they belong to a larger, regulated system.
Movie industry as an institution
Individual films as responses to times of social or national crises.
Socio-historical contexts as backdrops against which individual films are evaluated.
Analysis of Viewers
Movie-going ad watching films like book-reading are life practice
The focus of study is not movies, but the spectators who watch them
Interconnections between movie watching (in public or private) and other regular life practice.
What part the movie watching activity occupy in individuals’ lives