# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christian-metz
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:26:11.887Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/christian-metz"
name: "Christian Metz"
slug: "christian-metz"
description: "Christian Metz was a French film theorist, best known for pioneering film semiotics, the application of theories of signification to the cinema. He argued that cinema should be analyzed not as a strict language system (''langue''), but rather as a language (''langage'') organized by specific narrative codes. During the 1970s, his work had a major impact on film theory in France, Britain, Latin America, and the United States. As Constance Penley flatly stated in Camera Obscura, \"Modern film theory begins with Metz.\""
tagline: "French film critic (1931–1993)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
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birthDate: "1931-12-12"
deathDate: "1993-09-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump