Sings and meaning in the cinema

The book is divides into three main sections. The first explores the work of Sergei Einstein as film-maker, designer and aesthetician. The second, wich contains a celebrated comparison of the films of John Ford and Howard Hawks, is an exposition and defence of the auteur theory. The third formulates a semiology of the cinema, invoking cinema as an exemplary test-case for comparative aesthetics and for general theories of signification