That's a vast theme. What you're basically referring to is the field
of film semiotics/semiology, the study of film as a language or
rather sign system. To get an overview, I would suggest looking at
the semiotics section in Robert Stam/Robert Burgoyne/Sandy Flitterman-
Lewis book New Vocbularies in Film Semiotics (Routledge, 1992).
That's before you head off to read Metz, Wollen, Heath et al.
Peter Wollen in his Signs and Meaning in the Cinema tries to make use
of Peirce's triadic sign theory, as does Deleuze in his two cinema
books.
Hope this helps as a starting point.
Henry
> Dear List,
>
>
> I have been working on an idea that I am having some trouble
> backing up. Better put, I am having some trouble evaluating the
> state of the art concerning this question: what others have thought
> through, or what paths have already been trodden.
> It goes something like this: considering that (usually) our use and
> experience of language occurs in the medium of a given mother
> tongue, could one consider something like a visual/temporal mother
> tongue that film could somehow access?
> Meaning, is film (considered speechlessly as images in time) a
> language or an idiom?
>
> Authors, experiences, bibliographical suggestions, or plain
> feedback are both welcome and appreciated.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Eduardo Abrantes
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