Toward a Semiotics of Chinese Cinema

This work is to initiate a semiotic re-examination of
Chinese cinema. Such re-examination was built upon
the concepts of Semiotics as conceived of by Charles
Sanders Peirce. In addition, in constructing a
semiotic approach to aesthetic issues in general and
to cinema in particular, the author incorporated
aesthetic theories from American Pragmatism and
Kenneth Burke s concepts of poetic process. In
forming a semiotic approach specific to cinema, the
author relied primarily on Gilles Deleuze s cinematic
theories.
This book brings a Chinese perspective into dialectic
contact with Western thought, hoping at once to
enrich the scope of a general Semiotics of Cinema and
to initiate a semiotic analysis of Chinese Cinema.
This theorizing is to converse with scholars who are
interested in Semiotics in general and film Semiotics
in particular; furthermore, it should be especially
informative and useful to researchers of Chinese Cinema.

Autorentext

Kuang-Jung Chen, PH.D. in Communication, Purdue University;Assistant Professor at Hsuan Chuang University, Taiwan, ROC.

Klappentext

This work is to initiate a semiotic re-examination ofChinese cinema. Such re-examination was built uponthe concepts of Semiotics as conceived of by CharlesSanders Peirce. In addition, in constructing asemiotic approach to aesthetic issues in general andto cinema in particular, the author incorporatedaesthetic theories from American Pragmatism andKenneth Burke's concepts of poetic process. Informing a semiotic approach specific to cinema, theauthor relied primarily on Gilles Deleuze's cinematictheories. This book brings a Chinese perspective into dialecticcontact with Western thought, hoping at once toenrich the scope of a general Semiotics of Cinema andto initiate a semiotic analysis of Chinese Cinema.This theorizing is to converse with scholars who areinterested in Semiotics in general and film Semioticsin particular; furthermore, it should be especiallyinformative and useful to researchers of Chinese Cinema.