Acknowledgments & Editorial Note
Margrit Tröhler — Christian Metz and Film Semiology — Dynamics within and on the Edges of the ‘Model’: An Introduction
I. Metz and the Tradition of Film Theory
Raymond Bellour — Two Ways of Thinking
Michel Marie — Christian Metz and His Theoretical Legacy
Roger Odin — Christian Metz for Today
Frank Kessler — Thinking Cinema: Christian Metz and/in the Tradition of Film Theory
Guido Kirsten — Barthes’ Early Film Semiology and the Legacy of Filmology in Metz
II. Questions of Form and Aesthetics
Martin Lefebvre — Christian Metz and Aesthetics
Francesco Casetti — Christian Metz and the Modern Cinema
André Gaudreault & Philippe Gauthier — Christian Metz, Editing, and Forms of Alternation
III. Specificities of the Cinematic Code and the Imaginary
Philip Rosen — Between Classical and Postclassical Film Theory: Metz on Specificity Then and Now
Selim Krichane — Cyber-Metz? The Notion of Code in the Writings of Christian Metz
Marc Vernet — Yes, the Image Lies Beyond Analogy: Understanding Metz with Cartier-Bresson
Mary Ann Doane — The Cinematic Signifier and the Imaginary
D.N. Rodowick — Fetishism and Skepticism, or the Two Worlds of Christian Metz and Stanley Cavell
IV. Narration, Enunciation, Cinephilia
Anne Goliot-Lété — Cinema: Image or Narrative
Dana Polan — Semiotics, Science, and Cinephilia: Christian Metz’s last book, L’énonciation impersonnelle
Alain Boillat — ‘ŸTheorizeŒ, he says... ’: Christian Metz and the Question of Enunciation: A Theory in (Speech) Acts
Dominique Bluher — Personal Enunciation: Presences of Absences
Nico Baumbach — Metz With Deleuze: From Film-Philosophy to Film Theory and Back Again
Two Interviews with Christian Metz
Elena Dagrada — Thirty Years After
Elena Dagrada & Guglielmo Pescatore — The Semiology of Cinema? It Is Necessary to Continue! A Conversation with Christian Metz
Margrit Tröhler — Flashback to Winter 1990
Dominique Blüher & Margrit Tröhler — ‘I Never Expected Semiology to Thrill the Masses’: Interview with Christian Metz
Postscript
‘Conclusion’ (handwritten note by Christian Metz)
Summaries
List of Contributors
List of Translators