| Summary: | Mabel Tassara's work delves into the rhetorical aspects of film, focusing on the concept of 'figuration' to explore the semiotic and semantic diversity within cinema. The book examines how rhetorical elements in film, such as visual and narrative structures, contribute to meaning. Tassara draws on theoretical frameworks from scholars like Hjelmslev to connect the constructive elements of poetry and film. The study aims to deepen understanding of cinematic language by exploring historical and modern film poetics, emphasizing the active role of the viewer in interpreting film. Intended for scholars and enthusiasts of film studies, the book offers a rigorous methodology for analyzing the rhetorical dimensions of cinema.
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