Kinokeelemudeli areng strukturalistliku kinosemioloogia perioodil
The development of the model of cinematic language during the structural period of semiology of cinema

Summary/Abstract: The paper studies the development of the model of cinematic language during the period of classical structuralist semiology of cinema (from 1960s until early 1970s). Central to this overview are the works of Christian Metz, who is regarded as the founder of semiology of cinema, and those of whom had influence on his approach. Although Metz started his semiological research arguing that cinema is a language without a language system, langage sans langue, he later concluded that the language of cinema too entails a formation equivalent to language system (i.e. cinematic codes). Furthermore, instead of contrasting language to language system, he later separated language from speech in the study of cinema — the language of cinema from film as textual system. These shifts can be viewed as transition from a theoretical concept to a semiological model of the language of cinema. The article concentrates on the underlying productive as well as on counter-productive influences of this shift, on the reasons why the semiology of cinema at first struggled with adopting the Saussurean model of language, and on the developments that finally made it possible. Thus, the author examines the issues pertaining to the object of study taken as a result of specific approaches and methods, and relates to the differentiation of cinema and film as central and perhaps one of the most important contributions to the semiology of cinema

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