When discussing film language, don't forget rhetoric. Metz argued back
in the 1960s that any discussion of image ordering must not be limited
to grammar, but take rhetoric into account: "the nature of the
semiotics of film is that grammar and rhetoric are not separate in it."
Metz refers specifically to the classical rhetorical trope of
dispositio, which consists of "prescribing determined orderings to
undetermined elements."
Warren Buckland
Latest book: "Directed by Steven Spielberg:
Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster"
Editor, New Review of Film and Television Studies:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17400309.asp
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