Spaces of Communication: Elements of Semio-Pragmatics

Spaces of Communication offers a concise introduction to semiopragmatics and condenses the intellectual trajectory of one of the foundational figures of film studies into a relatively short and accessible volume. It testifies to the author’s deep and rich intellectual engagement with a vast array of objects ranging from the classics of the cinephile canon to television news programs, home movies and mobile phone films.

Roger Odin is emeritus professor of Communication at Paris 3 University; Head of the Film and Audiovisual Institute (1983-2003); Theorist of the semio-pragmatic approach (De la fiction, 2000; Les Espaces de Communication, 2011). Works about documentaries, amateur films (＂Amateur Technologies of Memory, Dispositifs and Communication Spaces＂, in Materializing Memories, 2018) and mobile phone (with L. Allard and L. Creton, Téléphone mobile et création, 2014; Mobiles, Enjeux artistiques et esthétiques, Théorème, 2018; ＂Das Zeitalter der Filmsprache ist angebrochen＂, Montage AV, 2019).