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Carboni, Camilla. "Film spectatorship and subjectivity : semiotics, complications, satisfactions." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1671.
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Konkle, Amanda. "MARILYN MONROE’S STAR CANON: POSTWAR AMERICAN CULTURE AND THE SEMIOTICS OF STARDOM." UKnowledge, 2016. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/28.
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Although Marilyn Monroe was one of the most famous American film stars, and a monumental cultural figure, her film work has been studied far less than her biography. Applying C.S. Peirce’s semiotic categories of icon, index, and symbol, this research explains how Monroe acquired meaning as an actress: Monroe was a powerful, but simplified, public image (an icon); an indicator of a particular historical and social context (an index); and an embodiment of significant cultural debates (a symbol).
Analyzing Monroe as an icon reveals how her personal life, which contradicted her official publicity story, generated public sympathy and led to a perceived intimacy between the star and her fans. Monroe’s persona developed through her roles in films about marriage. We’re Not Married (1952) and Niagara (1953) expose the pitfalls of marriage. In response to fan criticism of Monroe’s aggressive persona in these films, however, Darryl F. Zanuck, in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), consciously distanced Monroe both from her aggressive persona and her implicit criticism of marriage. Monroe’s films, in particular, The Seven Year Itch (1955), Bus Stop (1956), and Some Like it Hot (1959), also revealed the tensions inherent in postwar understandings of female sexuality. Monroe’s role in her final completed film, The Misfits (1960), both acknowledges and resists her status as a symbol. This film unites Monroe’s screen persona and off-screen life in resistance to conventional values: her character embraces divorce, lives with a man who is not her husband, and openly criticizes men who betray trust. This film most extensively interweaves Monroe as an icon, an index, and a symbol. In so doing, it reveals how Monroe embodied the contradictions inherent in both postwar culture and Hollywood stardom.
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Nasta, Dominique. "Code structures and transgressive strategies in film." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/213226.
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Touzjian, Richard. "From Film to Architecture:An Extended Cinematic Design Process based on Architectural Interpretations of Narrative Film." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/151991.
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Godwin, Jonathan. "Film in the Classroom: Toward a More Effective Pedagogy." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000157.
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Furstenau, Marc. "Cinema, language, reality : digitization and the challenge to film theory." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=84508.
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Digital cinema has provoked a strong response over the last decade, not only from the movie-going public, but also from film theorists. It has re-opened basic theoretical questions about cinematic representations of and reference to reality.<br>This thesis begins with a critical review of the vast theoretical literature dealing with the digitization of the cinema. Most theorists have come to the conclusion that the cinema is dead because digitization has severed the ties between what we see on the screen and real life. At root, this conclusion is derived from a structuralist, nominalist position prevalent in contemporary film theory.<br>I argue, instead, that film theory needs to re-address the complex issue of the relationship between image and reality, rather than simply accepting the traditional view. In so doing, I follow Stanley Cavell's call for a more thorough consideration of realist traditions in film theory, the premise of which is an unquestioned relationship between representation and reality.<br>The complexity and subtlety of that relationship has been addressed most systematically and fruitfully by Charles Saunders Peirce. Indeed, many structuralist theorists have made reference to Peirce in response to the shortcomings of a semiologically inflected film theory. In the second step of my argument, however, I show that structuralist theory has produced misleading conclusions, since a Peircian semiotics is incommensurable with the structuralist position. In fact, this implicit conflict has led theorists to doubt the real in the digital cinema, rather than investigating the logically necessary continuity of reality and representation, regardless of its technological kind.
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Myers, Elena K. "A Semiotic Analysis of Russian Literature in Modern Russian Film Adaptations(Case Studies of Boris Godunov and The Captain’s Daughter)." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429832017.
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Elliott, Andrew Brian Ross. "Recreation and representation : the Middle Ages on film (1950-2006)." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/88498.
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In evaluating the Middle Ages on film, this thesis combines two different critical approaches, drawn from historiography on one side and semiotics on the other. In the first chapter, I argue that historiographic criticism has largely undermined our belief in a monolithic, objective History, and that modern historical enquiry contains a tacit admission of its own subjectivity. In Chapter Two, I use these admissions to argue the case for history on film, demonstrating that in terms of the construction of history, the processes of filmmaking closely resemble those of ‘doing’ history, and that criticisms of historical films are often the same criticisms which Historians raise in respect of their own works of ‘pure history’. In the remaining chapters (3-6), I look at specific examples of types of historical character, drawn from the medieval separation of society into “those who work, those who fight and those who pray”, as well as “those who rule”. In each case, I adopt a similar methodological approach, conducting close cinematographic analysis on a range of film extracts in order to see how filmmakers have tried to construct the past visually in their representation of historical characters. Here my arguments move away from historical criticism to focus instead on aesthetics and cinematography. The overall theory is that there exist two fundamental approaches to the medieval past in film: the first iconic and syntagmatic, the second paradigmatic. Iconic approaches, I argue, work to try to recreate the lost medieval referent by using aesthetic ‘signifiers’ in order to communicate their significance to a medieval audience. The paradigm, on the other hand, works in the opposite way; in order to explain a medieval object, the filmmaker casts about for modern equivalents to use as metaphors. Where the icon recreates the object to communicate the concept, the paradigm communicates the object by re-presenting the concept.
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Hey, Jessica L. "A New Queer Trinity: A Semiotic, Genre Theory, and Auto-Ethnographic Examination of Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1493984077068621.
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Rudolphson, Filip, and Anton Mannerdahl. "Ord skapar mening, tecken skapar film : En undersökning om semiotiska teckens betydelse för ett berättande i en spelfilm." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för teknik och estetik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-14711.
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Detta kandidatarbete undersöker och granskar uppbyggandet av ett berättande i en spelfilm. Syftet är att få kunskap om vad ett berättande i en spelfilm består av och vad det är som påverkar det. Genom semiotikens tecken får vi förståelse för hur allt kan få en mening och sedan användas för att kommunicera något till användaren. Begreppet multimodalitet har sedan använts för att förstå hur tecken fungerar när de behöver samspela med varandra. Vi undersöker berättandet genom att göra en egen spelfilm som vi sedan analyserar för att bättre förstå vikten bakom de val av tecken vi använde och hur berättandet påverkades av våra val. Vi kommer att presentera resultatet vi uppnått, vilka motgångar vi stött på och andra diskussioner kring resultatet.<br>This bachelor thesis examines the construction of a narrative in a fictional film. The purpose is to acquire knowledge of what a narrative in a fictional film consist of and what it affects. Through the sign of semiotics, we get an understanding of how everything can get a significance and then be used to communicate something to the user. The concept of multimodality has then been used to understand how signs work in an interplay with each other. We examine the narrative by making our own fictional film that we then analyse to get a better understanding of the importance of the signs we used and how the narrative was influenced by our choices. We will present the results we achieved, the types of adversities we encountered and other discussions about the outcome.
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Peksel, Öykü. "Women in New Turkish Cinema : An Analysis of “Climates”, “Three Monkeys” and “Once upon a time in Anatolia”." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-77651.
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This study investigated the cinematic representations of women in ‘Climates’ ‘Three Monkeys’ and ‘Once upon a time in Anatolia’ created by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. It explored the image of women and the ideologies that affects them in the aforementioned films. For the analysis, semiotics is used and feminist film theory is applied. The findings indicated that the women images are affected by patriarchal ideology. Female characters were portrayed as weak or weakened by men regardless of their representative social group. The results showed similarities to Mulvey’s argument and to Friedan’s definition of feminine mystique. Male gaze dominates the visual pleasures and the female characters showed similar features as described by Mulvey and Friedan.
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Lemos, Carolina Lindenberg. "Entre expressões e conteúdos: do semissimbolismo às categorias tensivas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8139/tde-30042010-121008/.
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A noção de semissimbolismo trouxe para a semiótica da Escola de Paris a possibilidade de um estudo mais sistemático das contribuições da expressão para o sentido do texto. A partir de então, foi possível reconhecer categorias no nível da manifestação textual que eram homologadas a pares de oposição no conteúdo. Apesar do ganho teórico que representou, o semissimbolismo guardava ainda limitações, principalmente porque estabelecia relações transitórias e contingentes, que não permitiam uma comparação entre objetos distintos. Com os desenvolvimentos da semiótica tensiva, novas perspectivas de relacionar expressão e conteúdo foram abertas. Ao se valer de termos vindos de componentes expressivos, a semiótica de Claude Zilberberg propôs categorias suficientemente gerais para que fossem aplicáveis aos dois planos da linguagem. Assim, tudo ocorre como se as categorias semissimbólicas, que formavam pares específicos para expressão, de um lado, e conteúdo, de outro, encontrassem na semiótica tensiva o termo complexo que reúne as categorias de cada plano num nível mais abstrato de análise. Tomando como objeto um conjunto de filmes publicitários, o presente trabalho propõe testar e estender os usos da semiótica tensiva, a fim de investigar (i) de que forma a tensividade está presente nas categorias semissimbólicas; (ii) como o instrumental teórico da semiótica tensiva poderia ser aplicado tanto a categorias do conteúdo quanto a categorias da expressão; (iii) quais elementos da expressão seriam relevantes na composição da cifra tensiva dos textos que compõem o nosso corpus; e (iv) como se pode partir diretamente de figuras da expressão e do conteúdo para a análise tensiva, sem que seja necessário fazer uso das categorias semissimbólicas. A natureza sincrética dos anúncios estudados traz questões acerca da relação entre as diferentes dimensões expressivas (musical, verbal, visual). Da análise de cada filme pudemos extrair generalizações sobre o conjunto dos anúncios que revelaram (i) suas semelhanças e diferenças em relação ao uso da câmera e da música, (ii) o papel desempenhado pelos elementos repetitivos na cifra tensiva e (iii) uma estrutura de clímax comum a todas as peças. Em nossas conclusões, voltamos à relação entre expressão e conteúdo para, somada às generalizações traçadas, apresentar uma forma de interação entre os planos da linguagem nos quadros da semiótica tensiva.<br>In the framework of French Semiotics, the concept of semisymbolism enabled a more systematic study of the contributions of the expression to the meaning in texts. It became possible to recognize categories on the level of manifestation of texts that would then be homologated to opposing pairs in the content. Though it meant a great theoretical gain, semisymbolism still had limitations, mainly because the relations it established were contingent and transitory, and, therefore, did not allow for a comparison between different objects. With the developments of the Tensive Model, new ways of relating expression and content were envisaged. Borrowing terms from the expression component, Claude Zilberberg proposed categories that were sufficiently broad to be applied to both planes of the linguistic sign. Under this new perspective, the tensive categories could be seen as the complex term that would link, on a more abstract level, the semisymbolic categories for the expression, on the one side, and for the content, on the other. Having as object of analysis a set of advertisement films, this study proposes to test and extend the uses of the Tensive Model, with the purpose of investigating (i) how tensive categories underlie the semisymbolic ones; (ii) how to apply the theoretical tools of Tensive Semiotics to both content and expression; (iii) which elements of the expression may be relevant to the constitution of the tensive curve of the texts that compose our corpus; and (iv) how to go directly from the figures of expression and content to the tensive analysis, without resorting to semisymbolic categories. The syncretic nature of the advertisements selected raises questions on the relation between different expressive dimensions (musical, verbal, visual). From the analysis of each film, we were able to make generalizations on the group of advertisements that emphasized (i) their differences and similarities in relation to the use of camera and music, (ii) the role played by repetitive structures in the tensive curve, and (iii) the climax structure common to all the films. In our conclusions, we returned to the relation between expression and content, in the light of the generalizations proposed, to present a new form of interaction between the two planes of the linguistic sign in the perspectives of Tensive Semiotics.
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Gazetas, Aristides. "Imagining selves : the politics of representation, film narratives and adult education." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq25053.pdf.
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Morris, De'Sean B. "Finding A Lost Style: Study 01_Questioning Relationships Between Black Architecture, Black Film, and Black Communities in the United States." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1627661571907818.
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Witte, Shelbie Miller. ""What you need, Eddie, is another remedial reading class" : a semiotic analysis of representations of literacy in popular school film." Diss., Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/609.
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Nomark, Sanna, and Miriam Pålsson. "Representation av äldre i animerad långfilm : En kvalitativ innehållsanalys." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avd för medier och design, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-12990.
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Det finns få studier om äldre karaktärer i animerade filmer. Studierna som gjorts visar att äldre karaktärer har porträtterats på ett oproportionerligt negativt sätt. Dessa studier är nu över tio år gamla och därför behövs ny forskning som undersöker hur äldre representeras. Denna studie syftar till att undersöka hur äldre karaktärer porträtteras i animerad mainstream-film från år 2017 genom en analys av de fem animerade filmerna Coco, Smurfarna - Den försvunna byn, The Lego Ninjago Movie, Monsterfamiljen och Kapten Kalsong. Med hjälp av en kvalitativ och semiotisk innehållsanalys undersöks vilka identitetspositioner, narrativa funktioner, samt stereotyper och tecken som används för att porträttera äldre. Studien visar en positiv förändring av äldres representation i form av mer nyanserade karaktärer i betydelsefulla roller. De vanligaste stereotyperna kring äldre syns inte i materialet, istället används ledarroller och arketyper så som den vise. Förekomsten av äldre och ålderstecken verkar i första hand vara ett uttryck för visdom och erfarenhet snarare än som ett tecken på deras kronologiska åldrande.<br>There are few studies that investigate older characters in animated film. Older characters have been portrayed in a disproportionately negative manner according to previous studies. These studies were made over ten years ago, therefore new research is needed to investigate how older people are represented. The aim of this research is to examine how older characters are portrayed in mainstream animated films from 2017 by analyzing five animated films: Coco, Smurfs - The Lost Village, The Lego Ninjago Movie, Monster Family and Captain Underpants. Using a qualitative and semiotic content analysis, we investigate how identity markers, narrative functions, as well as stereotypes and signs are used to portray older people. The study shows a positive change in the representation of older people where the characters have more nuanced and important roles. The most common stereotypes around older people do not appear in these films, instead authority roles and archetypes such as the wise are used. Rather than a sign of chronological aging the appearance of elderly and signs of age primarily seems to be used to convey wisdom and experience.
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Cabrera, Carreon Maria Dolores Verfasser], John [Akademischer Betreuer] [Gutachter] Bateman, and Sabine [Gutachter] [Schlickers. "The Filmic Construction of the Figure of the Vampire in Murnau, Lang and Mendez : An Explorative Analysis with Greimasian Semiotics / Maria Dolores Cabrera Carreon ; Gutachter: John Bateman, Sabine Schlickers ; Betreuer: John Bateman." Bremen : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1132757037/34.
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Cabrera, Carreon Maria Dolores Verfasser], John A. [Akademischer Betreuer] [Bateman, and Sabine [Gutachter] Schlickers. "The Filmic Construction of the Figure of the Vampire in Murnau, Lang and Mendez : An Explorative Analysis with Greimasian Semiotics / Maria Dolores Cabrera Carreon ; Gutachter: John Bateman, Sabine Schlickers ; Betreuer: John Bateman." Bremen : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00105886-17.
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Anticoli, Rahel. "Cultural Adaptation of Cancer Campaign Films : A comparison made between beauty commercials; United States ofAmerica and India." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Bildproduktion, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-27472.
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Uppsatsens syfte är att göra en filmanalys av kampanjfilmer om bröstcancer som var skapade av kosmetiska företag i Indien och U.S.A. I uppsatsen undersöks hur semiotiska resurser var påverkade av kulturen och hur kampanjerna har använt kulturell adaption i marknadsföringssyfte. Jag beskriver en denotation av två filmer från varje land följd utav en konnotation som stödjs av artiklar och böcker om respektive kultur. Avslutningsvis tar jag upp och diskuterar de olika teorierna om hur kulturell adaption kan påverka en människa ur ett marknadsföringsperspektiv. Slutsatsen är att nationalism och appropriation är några av de viktiga elementen i kulturell adaption som förstärker marknadsföring. Dessa element skapar självidentitet och förtrogenhet hos individen som tittar på filmen. Några semiotiska resurser som hade förändrats i kulturell adaption och som hälpte till att skapa de elementen var etnicitet, gester, kläder, miljö, och symboler.
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Turner, Matthew R. "Signs of Comedy: A Semiotic Approach to Comedy in the Arts." Ohio : Ohio University, 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1126899710.
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Ricklund, Michaela, and Tova Rane. "I Nangilima kanske det är mer snö och is : En receptionsstudie av hur barn kan tolka Astrid Lindgrens film Bröderna Lejonhjärta." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-84812.
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In 1973 the famous Swedish children’s author Astrid Lindgren wrote the story about the brothers Lionheart. A story about the love between two brothers, bravery and death. Ever since, there have been a widely discussion whether the story is suitable for the young readers. Although the voices heard in the discussion mostly comes from grown-ups, but what does the children actually think? The aim of this study was to display the children’s interpretations in terms of the metaphors, the semiotics and the sequence of events the film Brothers Lionheart which was screened in the first time 1977. To answer the issues we watched the movie and implemented semi-structured interviews with seven 10-11 year old children. The children in this study gave us both different and interesting interpretations in terms of the metaphors and semiotics which could depend on different experiences in life and backgrounds. This study also shows that the children’s perception of the narrative structure in the movie varies which could mean that their story scheme sometimes is more or less developed in this age.
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Vanmalderghem, Olivier. "L'unité du film: une systémique du récit cinématographique." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212516.
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Breed, Catharina Adriana. "Die herskryf van die roman Die swye van Mario Salviati van Etienne van Heerden as 'n draaiboek, met spesifieke fokus op identiteit, hibriditeit en liminaliteit / C.A. Breed." Thesis, North-West University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1671.
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Mattsson, Ludwig. "Bong Joon-hos gestaltande av klass : En semiotisk klassanalys av Snowpiercer, Okja och Parasite." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-98007.
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van, Dam Bianca. "Disney's Fashionable Girls : Signs and symbols in the costume dress of Disney's female characters." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Centrum för modevetenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-105532.
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Disney’s princesses and heroines have long captured the minds and hearts of young girls with their magical dress. This thesis researches the fashion symbols in a chosen set of animated movies and relate this to children’s reception, sexuality and gender issues and narrative identities. A semiotic analysis of the movies and relating them to read literature will shine a new light on this subject.
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Batista, Fernanda Cristina Araújo. "Lolita de Ramsdale x Lolitas de Hollywood: uma análise do romance de Vladimir Nabokov e das adaptações fílmicas de Stanley Kubrick e Adrian Lyne." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2010. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/2318.
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Previous issue date: 2010-08-12<br>Fundo Mackenzie de Pesquisa<br>This paper aims at analyzing the relation between Vladimir Nabokov s novel Lolita (1955) and Stanley Kubrick s and Adrian Lyne s film adaptations of the novel, the former released in 1962 and the latter in 1997. We will base our study on French semiotics, also known as greimasian semiotics, to analyze the effects of meaning created by the different actantial roles played by the narrator, Humbert Humbert, in the novel and the strategies used in the filmic discourses to create the same effects in certain sequences in order to honor the original work or, on the contrary, to create different effects in order to revise it in some aspects, adapting it to their target audience, which was different from the one which had only had contact with the book because they lived in a different time and had expectations of how the movies would treat controversial subject matters that had been raised in the novel.<br>Esta dissertação analisará a relação entre o romance Lolita (1955), de Vladimir Nabokov, e as adaptações fílmicas, de Stanley Kubrick, de 1962, e de Adrian Lyne, de 1997. Tendo por base a teoria da semiótica de linha francesa, também conhecida como semiótica greimasiana, para tratar dos efeitos de sentido gerados pelos diferentes papéis actanciais que o narrador Humbert Humbert assume no romance e das estratégias utilizadas no discurso fílmico a fim de criar os mesmos efeitos e reverenciar a obra de base em determinadas sequências ou, pelo contrário, com o objetivo de criar efeitos diferentes como forma de revisar o texto de origem em alguns aspectos, adequando-o ao público-alvo da produção fílmica, cujo perfil é diferente devido à época em que viveram e às expectativas que tinham a respeito do modo como os filmes tratariam o tema polêmico do romance.
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Johansson, Christer. "Mimetiskt syskonskap : En representationsteoretisk undersökning av relationen fiktionsprosa-fiktionsfilm." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och idéhistoria, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-7447.
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The dissertation deals with two different subjects: on the one hand the interrelations of narrative prose fiction and narrative fiction film, on the other hand fictional narration and intermediality as such. The first part discusses the concepts of medium and intermediality, and presents some general theoretical models. Of special importance is the three level structure of fictional representations: sign vehicle, meaning and fictional content. The second part focuses on the qualities of the sign vehicle, and on different kinds of meaning and fictional content. The sign vehicle of language and literature is digital, and consists of replicas of types. The film medium is analogue, the cinematic sign is a copy. The conventionality of literary fictions is primary, i. e. literary meaning depends on the conventions of language. The conventionality of film narratives is secondary, mediated by non-conventional meaning. The second part also deals with specific, general, generic, concrete and abstract meaning, and discusses the concepts of metaphor, symbol and expression. Part three focuses on iconic and index relations, i. e. relations of similarity and contiguity, of the fictional representation. Cinematic narratives are characterized by primary iconicity, i. e. all meaning and fictional content are dependent on the iconic relation between the poles of the representation. The iconicity of prose fiction is, by contrast, secondary, mediated by conventional sign relations. Also abductive and performative, fictional and non-fictional indexical signs, and different kinds of implications and lacunas are discussed. Part four deals with the concepts of fictionality and narrative perspective, such as the fictional stance, the narrator and focalization. Four different notions of fictionality are scrutinized and brought together, and narrative perspective is described and analyzed in terms of two different game fictions: epic games and perceptual games. Depending on the semiotic resources, the possibilities and limits of prose fiction and fiction film described in the first three parts of the dissertation, fictional games are shown to be more or less rich and realistic.
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Beneke, Nanette. "The formation and transformation of identity in the novel and film of Great expectations by Charles Dickens / N. Beneke." Thesis, North-West University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/582.
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The research done in this study was motivated by the notion that individuals (or
societies) create their own reality through the specific space they occupy at a certain
moment in time. This concept of reality implies an "interspace" between (con)texts that
could be described as a hybrid (a term that is used to describe the mixing or
intermingling of different aspects or liminal space between various (con)texts. As the
notion of identity is closely related to the interaction of the individual with a specific
context, the main aim of the research was to promote hybridity as a form of identity by
exploring the relationship or dialogue between literature (novel) and film as texts.
For this purpose, a comparison was made between the formation of identity in the novel
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and its twentieth century counterpart in film
produced by Twentieth Century Fox (directed by Alfonso Cuaron and adapted by Mitch
Glazer). The main difference between the two texts, the different periods in which the
works were produced, constituted an important point of departure for this study. It also
revealed that the main character of the respective texts, Pip/Finn, possesses a type of
"core personality" of a sense of values that refuses to be repressed, despite the
character's interaction with context as reflected in the interplay between the similarities
and differences between the texts.
The methodological approach was based on the Brockmeier model which suggested an
imbrication of theories such as narratology, semiotics and intertextuality that could all
contribute, in some way, towards the formation of "textual" identity. The analysis ,first
identified three (con)textual aspects/constants in the formation of identity, namely
ideological influences, strategies of writing and social reality, in the novel Great
Expectations, and then proceeded to illustrate the transformation of these contextual
markers in the twentieth century film version. 'The comparison indicated an expansion of
the narrator's/protagonist's historic consciousness in the film that correlated with the
cultural dominants of the specific time: the film's realist mode as opposed to the
postmodernist expansion or fusion of boundaries. The two texts were perceived to be
engaged in a dialogue with no conclusive interpretation, an aspect familiar to the
postmodernist approach.<br>Thesis (Ph.D. (English))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.
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Da, Silva Jose. "Fault Lines: Queer Skinheads and Gay Male Subjectivity in the Film Praxis of Bruce LaBruce." Queensland University of Technology, 2004. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15836/.
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Fault Lines positions a theory of gay male subjectivity as it relates to the Queer skinhead and its dissemination in gay male pornography. In narrating the transformation of the original skinhead as a subcultural youth type to its present re-signification as a fetish and sexual identity within gay male subculture, Fault Lines reveals a tripartite problem of fetishism, sadomasochism and fascism. Through an analysis of Bruce LaBruce's film Skin Gang / Skin Flick (1999) these problems are contextualised within a discourse of gay male pornography, broadening the investigation to consider how problems of masculinity, violence and race manifest within a distinctly gay male sexual imaginary. Examining the representational function of the Queer skinhead, Fault Lines seeks to speculate on how notions of a gay male subject and subjectivity can be established at the intersection of an aesthetic, political and social experience.
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Dudenhoeffer, Larrie. "Corruptions of the Flesh: The Body, Subjectivity, Postmodernity." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_diss/20.
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This study will embrace certain features of postmodern experience so as to underline subjective embodiment as the condition, corollary, and appropriate focus of textual, rhetorical, and sociopolitical criticism. It will theorize somantics as a conceptual toolkit for mapping the structural correspondence of embodiment to the symbolic order, each thus emerging as the other’s non-foundational “efficient reason.” This study will argue that the flesh mediates the theoretic divisions of structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and existentialism, although not in a priori or essentialist ways. It will draw from their vocabularies, combining them into a vocabulary of its own while retexturing their relation to one another. It thus aspires to reduce all rhetorics and metaphysics to the somantic, so as to sabotage conservative fundamentalisms and to establish the terms for an argument with enthusiasts of transhumanism. Moreover, this study will suggest that theoretic systems, cultural messages, and sociopolitical speech-acts inattentive to the condition of embodiment—whether that of their agents, interlocutors, or material mediums of expression— must then seem at once suspicious, maladaptive to the sense contingencies of the moment, and deserving of somantic reduction. In correcting these faults, it will also resist systematizing or universalizing sense-experience; it will function rather as a corpus of maps that rechart the volatile, moment-to-moment interimplication of the somatic and the symbolic. Thus this study takes axiomatically Frederic Jameson’s claim that intertextuality replaces history in the era of transnational capital, seeing in this argument the strategic advantage of taking a theoretic standpoint against diachronic modalities of time. Arguing for the reconstruction of certain narratives as distortions, if not outright falsifications, of the simultaneation of needs, impressions, and changes in a subject’s sense-experience, this study will redirect attention to the relation of certain discourses to the bodies of their interlocutors.
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Söderling, Maria. "Att sätta erfarenheter i rörelse. En undersökning av hur elever i år 7 läser film och hur svenskundervisningen kan förvalta deras filmläsning." Licentiate thesis, Malmö högskola, Kultur-språk-medier (KSM), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-7608.
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ABSTRACT This licentiate thesis is a study of the curriculum of the school subject Swedish from a socio-cultural perspective. The aim of the study is to obtain insights into how pupils in the seventh grade of the Swedish secondary school system read films, and further to investigate how the education in Swedish can manage and make the most of various approaches to film. The survey was conducted in a class which I teach myself, and the empirical data consists primarily of oral and written statements by the pupils, concerning the films they have seen. Furthermore the social context around the reception of the films has been mapped. As part of the empirical data there is also a record of a discussion in the classroom concerning filmmaking. With the reception model of Kathleen McCormick as a point of departure, the filmic repertoires of the pupils are analyzed, described and interpreted as they stand out within the framework of the study. The general repertoires of the pupils are also dealt with to some extent. The representations and non-representations of the readings are further discussed in a social semiotic perspective. The research shows that the pupils bring rich experiences of fiction from television as well as film to school. The research also indicates that there is a potential for specific learning processes in the reading of film, since the reception of film entails a possibility to widen the general and filmic repertoires as well as to be conscious of them. The most important potential for learning is in the meeting with films that create a tension between the general repertoires of the reader and the film itself, since the film in those cases stands for something hitherto unknown for the reader. The pupils in my survey do not, however, primarily watch film in order to obtain new experiences, or to learn something; they watch film as a means to feel and share experiences with others in order to strengthen their sense of belonging to a group. One exception appears to be films that the pupils interpret as based on reality, since there is a tendency among the pupils to be more openminded for clashes between their own repertoires and the repertoires in films when it comes to fiction anchored in reality. The true challenge of the teaching is to attract the pupils to develop conscious relationships to films that imply a tension between repertoires. The reasons for these tensions have furthermore to be investigated. When it comes to films based on reality, the study makes it clear that the population of pupils represents a diverse set of attitudes towards the films; some pupils read the films as pure facts, while others read them in a more reflective way, comparing the mediated images of reality in the actual films with other types of experiences. The teaching of Swedish with the intention to take care of the reception of film among school children must be conducted in an awareness of the fact that not all pupils are representing their readings in a way that makes it possible to create meeting places around them within the educational framework. In my view, the education in Swedish for the secondary school must in a more active way open up for the possibility for the pupils to acquire strategies for a conscious handling of their film readings, as well as access to a language by which they can make their representations. The fact that not all pupils are aware of how film can mediate constructions of reality makes it important to take care of the children’s readings in such a way that makes them aware of the semiotic resources of the cinematic medium. This is one reason why one should allow them make their own films. It is also important to use a diversity of semiotic resources when pupils are representing their readings in order to underline the plurality of interpretations and filmic repertoires. Finally, I discuss the results of my research in relation to the new curriculum of Swedish education as it is presented in the syllabus “Lgr 11” which will take effect as from the autumn semester of 2011. In my analysis I find that the space for work of the kind I have conducted in the classroom will be diminished due to the new curriculum. There are, however, still possibilities and a learning potential for a teaching in Swedish that in an active way will take care of film experiences, as well as other kinds of textual experiences.
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Svärd, Fanny. ""As if they're daring you to desire them" : En studie av de antika skulpturernas roll i filmen "Call me by your name"." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-353509.
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This Bachelor’s thesis examines the use of ancient bronze statues in the 2017 film Call me by your name by director Luca Guadagnino. Various scenes which feature ancient statues are examined individually using semiotic analysis. The scenes are examined individually, first described on a denotative level, then analyzed on a connotative level. The theoretical stand point is based on the studies of art works in film. Key theoretical concepts used are ”in between-ness” which is a state in which change in narrative is made possible through looking at art, and ”parallels”, a means of which to make art represent the characters in the film. The thesis finds the sculptures in Call me by your name to play a part in affecting the narrative of the film, mainly in regard to the love story between the two lead characters, two men named Elio and Oliver. The acts of looking, examining, and touching the statues in this film help the narrative turn in favor of the lead characters romantic relationship. The thesis argues that the nude bronze sculptures of men from ancient Greece are used in this film as signifiers of desire, timelessness and homoerotic lust.
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Leyoudec, Lénaïk. "L'éditorialisation du film de famille : l'architexte Famille TM comme support d'un exercice de la mémoire." Thesis, Compiègne, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017COMP2325.
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Cette recherche menée au sein du pôle de recherche et développement de la société Perfect Memory s'intéresse à l'accompagnement de la mémoire familiale via un dispositif technique, interrogé par le prisme des sciences de l'information et de la communication. Elle propose la construction d'une approche d'éditorialisation du document numérique permettant à chacun de s'approprier son patrimoine culturel au travers de l'utilisation du dispositif technique co-construit, l'application Web Famille TM. L'interrogation du milieu socio-économique de la préservation et la valorisation du patrimoine culturel du particulier, auquel Perfect Memory appartient, nous amène à nous interroger sur les enjeux d'un rapprochement entre les notions de « numérique » et de « mémoire ». Un cadre théorique est ainsi construit, le document numérique est appréhendé comme support d'un exercice de la mémoire, permis par la médiation du dispositif technique. L'éditorialisation, en tant qu'ensemble d'opérations réalisées sur le document numérique par l'intermédiaire du dispositif technique, est placée au cœur de notre problématique axée sur les modalités d'accompagnement des pratiques mémorielles via le service Famille TM. La construction de notre approche d'éditorialisation est séparée en deux moments. Dans un premier temps, un corpus de documents numériques - productions familiales préservées par différentes institutions patrimoniales - est interrogé par une méthodologie sémiotique afin d'extraire les éléments saillants invariants à leur interprétation, que nous rassemblons sous l'appellation de marqueurs de mémoire. Dans un second temps, les catégories de marqueurs construits sont transcrites en recommandations éditoriales et ergonomiques destinées au dispositif technique Famille TM. Articulé jusqu'ici autour d'un axe unique - la documentarisation de l'archive -, le dispositif est enrichi de deux nouveaux modes - cinématographique et privé -, constituant autant de points d'entrée supplémentaires dans le document versé par l'utilisateur sur le service. L'approche d'éditorialisation du document est ainsi décomposée en trois modes, comportant chacun différents scénarii, articulation de fonctionnalités et d'une expérience utilisateur spécifiques, construits pour le service Famille TM<br>This research project was made at the R&D department at Perfect Memory and focus on how to support family memory via a technological artifact. We question the artifact through the prism of information and communication sciences. The project offers to build a new approach, that of the editorialization of digital documents, enabling each user to rediscover their cultural heritage. This can be done by means of Famille TM, a co-built Web app. Following a study of the cultural heritage market as applied to private individuals, to whom Perfect Memory belongs, we proceed to a cross analysis of two concepts : "Digital" and "Memory". Starting from these, we built a theoretical framework in which we consider digital documents as a base for memory training. The technological artifact allows such training through a mediation process. Editorialization, as a set of processes made on the digital document through a technological artifact, appears as central to our concern: to design ways to support memory habits through Famille TM. We divide the construction of an editorialization approach into two steps. First, we build a corpus of digital documents - home movies - from various cultural heritage organizations. Then we interrogate the corpus through a semiotic methodology in order to gather salient and invariant elements in each interpretation. We name them memory markers. In a second step, we transcribe the markers categorization into editorial and ergonomic recommendations for Famille TM. Until today, the technological artifact consisted in one single mode: the documentation of archives. We introduce two extra modes: the cinematographic experience and the private experience. Each mode provides the user with an original entry point into documents uploaded on the app. To summarize our editorialization approach, we implement three modes into Famille TM and for each of them we design several scenarios made up of specific features and user experiences
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Stenström, Kristina. "Abject and Liminal Bodies : The Dead Body in CSI: Miami and Six Feet Under." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation (JMK), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-41744.
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This study researches fictional representations of dead bodies in two television series in which representations of dead bodies are prominent features. The study introduces a brief history of the human body as a societal metaphor. The narrower theme of the study, the dead body as a cultural surface and carrier of meaning and ritual potential, is discussed through specific popular cultural television productions. The two television series discussed in this study, CSI: Miami and Six Feet Under, are researched both through film analyses and focus group discussions. The film analyses have aimed to show to what use dead bodies are put in the narratives of the programs. The focus group discussions have sought to shed light on the audiences understanding of the meaning of the dead body, and also how this feature of the programs influence the audience and their experience of the programs. The study shows that both series introduce and underline dead bodies as floating in-between subject and object status. A dead person is often introduced as a subject and then stripped of his or her cultural identity and reintroduced as an object or as having an uncertain cultural status which lies somewhere between object and subject. This borderline status of the body serves as a threat in the series, and the subject status of the body is reinstated in every case possible. Order is a central concept for the study and both series strive to reassert and maintain order, either in relationships or on a societal level. The reinstatement of order is reflected on the physical body as a metaphor and narrative device in both series. The reestablishment of the subject status of a dead body is part of this strive for order. The audience research concludes that all focus group members agree that the representations of dead bodies in the programs are important for their experience of the programs. Some find them unpleasant while others think they are interesting. The audience also listed several other themes of the programs which they found important. The representations of dead bodies strike the audience members both as “real” and material, and as metaphors.
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Avrutin, Lilia. "The semiotic anthropology of Soviet film culture, 1960s-1990s." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ34731.pdf.
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Gaydos, Benjamin. "[ethno]graphic design." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd_retro/98.
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Visual communication is a part of everyone's daily existence. It is a ubiquitous mode that shapes not only the environment that individuals inhabit, but the very identity of the individual. Graphic designers, who create the vast majority of the visual communication encountered, play a crucial role in the production of cultural identity. It is a necessity that designers understand that role, as agents of cultural production.[ethno]graphic design is an ever-evolving approach to graphic design which utilizes anthropological methods in the creative process. This document presents a collection of projects which take an anthropological approach to the design process, utilizing techniques developed by cultural anthropologists to aid the design process primarily ethnographic fieldwork, participant observation, collaboration, multivocal representation and reflexivity.
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Porteous, Carol. "The Making of 'Annabelle Blue': A Peircean Semiotic Analysis of the Creative Process." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31739.
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The paper discusses how the semiotic relationships involved in the process of creating a documentary, interconnect and affect the documentary's truth claims from the perspective of Peirce's semiotic theory. To do this, I created an autobiographical film called 'Annabelle Blue' and then analyzed the experience. The making of 'Annabelle Blue' involved a number of representations, each of which involved the interplay of iconic, indexical and symbolic elements and each of which had a substantial influence on how the process continued. It is my contention
that documentary's truth claims must be evaluated in light of the assumption that documentary representation is a dynamic, creative process involving the jostling for position between semiotic aspects at every level.
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McGonigle, Frances. "Audio description and semiotics : the translation of films for visually-impaired audiences." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2013. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/805168/.
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This thesis explores the translation of mainstream film imagery in audio description (AD) for visually-impaired audiences, looking specifically at the intersemiotic transfer (from the visual to the verbal mode) of visual constructions important to connotational meaning. The original contribution of this work is the improved qualitative understanding of how viewing value may be enhanced for the users of film AD through the inclusion of imagery that presents wider opportunities for meaning-making. This research was based on the hypothesis that traditional forms of film AD may not adequately provide for visual connotation even though this is an integral part of filmmaking important to the expression of meanings beyond the basic story. Moreover, that visually-impaired people with intact cognitive function have an ability to conceptualise imagery in equivalent ways to sighted people. Traditionally, film AD has been a means of ‘filling in the gaps’ between dialogue and sounds to provide users with simple and coherent stories in the context of what can be heard. However, films are semiotic systems (Mitry, 2000: 15) communicating to audiences via complex patterns of visual and auditory signs, so whilst current practice in AD may respond to the legal requirement of access for all, access may not be equivalent if important elements of imagery are not adequately transferred. Based on three qualitative sources of data: the analysis of film and AD content, the testing of different AD versions and a semi-structured interview with respondents, this research sought to understand whether visual imagery important to wider levels of meaning is adequately handled in film AD in the UK and what this means in terms of value for target users. Whilst it was found that more sophisticated content is sometimes included, transfer is widely inconsistent, with consequential loss in value for AD target users.
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Oehlmann, Jan [Verfasser], and Sven [Akademischer Betreuer] Kramer. "Wir, die Anderen - Identitätskonstruktionen im Europäischen Film. Eine semiotisch-handlungstheoretisch erweiterte Analyse : Wir, die Anderen - Identitätskonstruktionen im Europäischen Film. Eine semiotisch-handlungstheoretisch erweiterte Analyse / Jan Oehlmann. Betreuer: Sven Kramer." Lüneburg : Universitätsbibliothek der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1049538625/34.
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Saes, Patrícia Helena Mazucchi [UNESP]. "O processo de transmutação de estruturas narrativas em Primeiras estórias: do livro aos filmes." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/106349.
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Mattsson, Ludwig. "Hur form följer funktion i titelsekvenser : En semiotisk analys av förtexter i framtidsfilm." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-85688.
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Det finns inte mycket forskning på ämnet förtexter, speciellt inte i film som utspelar sig i framtiden. Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka förtextens form och funktion utifrån en semiotisk analys som använder sig av de begrepp semiotiken medför i tolkandet av tecken. De två frågeställningar i arbetet är “I tolkandet av förtexten utifrån semiotisk analys, vilka val och budskap går att finna i förtextens form?” och “Vilka funktioner fyller de utvalda förtexterna för filmernas narrativ?” I urvalet av filmerna utgick jag från filmer som utspelas i framtiden, detta för att möjliggöra ett eventuellt eget och nytt uttryck för den tid då filmerna utspelar sig. Filmerna är Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979), Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985) och The Matrix (Lana och Lilly Wachowski, 1999). Dessa filmer utgår också från tre decennier. Mitt material för att göra analyserna utgick från hermeneutisk metod tillsammans med semiotisk analys. För att kunna tolka de tecken och begrepp som semiotiken medför utgick jag ifrån bl.a. texter av Gripsruds och Bignell. Detta förenat med historia och förhållningssätt till titeldesign, samt information om filmerna och deras produktioner. Uppsatsen resultat framställer att förtexternas form följer filmens funktioner i alla tre filmerna. Analyserna tydliggör att de val som gjorts i skapande ofta går att härleda direkt till filmens narrativ eller konceptuella idéer om varför titelsekvensen uppfattas som den gör utifrån de semiotiska begreppen. Samtidigt visar resultatet att förtextens design skulle vara ett tydligt sätt för att utöka filmens värld ytterligare och skapa ett sammanhängande uttryck till filmernas paketering och marknadsföring.
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Fergusson, Annie. "Modes of engagement in theatrical documentary." Queensland University of Technology, 2006. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16415/.
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This research aims to chart four modes of engagement in post-verite documentary films, devoted to an exclusive examination of theatrical formats, that being those documentaries which are originally intended for a cinema audience. As these theatrical documentaries provide a means for spectators to see through the cinema screen and into the real world, it is important to understand how this 'seeing through' is constructed by the documentary production itself. This thesis acknowledges that the 'learning' of documentary stories and subjects has broadened for the global audience of today. After exploring various separate critiques of documentary voice theory, the definition of documentary and film semiotics, I have devised eight paradigms for creating this 'learning' or 'documentary consciousness' in these theatrical or cinema documentaries. I have explored how these eight paradigms can be observed to function in four different modes. These modes contribute to an evolving understanding of viewer comprehension; that thing called documentary consciousness. This is demonstrated through the audio-visual appendix of clips taken from the proto-typical theatrical documentaries I have chosen to analyse, which are: 'Bowling For Columbine' by Michael Moore (2003), which is illustrative of what I have dubbed the 'Outcome Mode'; 'Etre et Avoir' ('To Be And To Have') by Nicholas Philibert (2004), which exemplifies what I call the 'Participant Mode'; 'My Architect' by Nathaniel Kahn (2005), an example of the 'Journey Mode'; 'Baraka' by Magidson Films (1996), a model of the 'Mandala Mode'.
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Tramontana, Andrea <1978>. "Il patrimonio dell'Umanità dell'Unesco: un'analisi di semiotica della cultura." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2007. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/222/.
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Bigi, Nicola <1976>. "Semiotica e organizzazione. Un approccio narrativo allo studio dell'identità organizzativa." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2009. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/1603/.
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Tot, Emese, and Pauline Säll. "Förtätning av film till stillbild." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Science and Technology, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-19198.
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<p>During this project a photographer and an illustrator have explored if a single image can communicate a bigger whole, in this case a movie. By analysing five motion pictures with visual communication theories, semiotics and colour symbolism as tools, ten images was created. These images do not only consist of symbols, but also communicate the overall feeling and colour scheme of the movie.</p><p>These images have been tested in interviews with six individuals, who, except for one, work with visual communication of some kind. They have studied the communication skills of the images from their own experiences.</p><p>The result of the interviews showed that all images could not communicate a movie. One reason for this was that only a few of the test persons had seen two of the selected movies. The movies selected for this project, all put more or less focus on the visual expression of the film. This made them unequally hard to condensate into one single image.</p>
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Nowak, Ann-Sophie. "Let them believe : En semiotisk analys av kristen tematik i Andrei Tarkovskijs film Stalker." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och kulturvetenskap (from 2013), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-71134.
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The purpose of this paper has been to analyze the Christian religious thematic in Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker. Stalker, both as film and protagonist, is the primary material for the purpose of this paper. The research issues that here are conducted is: What are the Christian religious elements in the film Stalker, in what respects can the character Stalker be likened to a Christ figure, and how does the answers to the above questions relate to contemporary theories of religious elements in film. For this I use a semiotic method, where I analyze Christian religious symbols, connotations, transcendent elements and how the protagonist Stalker can be likened to a Christ figure. Together with semiotics as a method, representation is used as theory, to analyze the above named religious elements in the film. My conclusions show that film and religion have a highly current place in our time. The inference made here is that film and theology belong together and these relate well to contemporary theories on the subject. Stalker can be likened to a Christ figure, the connotations are many and the protagonist fulfills the criteria that are set in the theory. There are connotations to Christian symbols and Christian religious themes in the film. There is also, to a great extent, a connection to contemporary theories on the subject. There is a religious interpretation pattern in people's media consumption and contemporary culture with films and where film is the genre within popular culture in which religion has received a great resurgence.
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De, Bernardis Mattia <1977>. "La questione percettiva in semiotica. Linee fondamentali e sviluppi della ricerca." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2008. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/1091/.
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This dissertation deals with the problems and the opportunities of a semiotic approach to
perception. Is perception, seen as the ability to detect and articulate an coherent picture of the
surrounding environment, describable in semiotic terms? Is it possibile, for a discipline wary of any
attempt to reduce semiotic meaning to a psychological and naturalized issue, to come to terms with
the cognitive, automatic and genetically hard-wired specifics of our perceptive systems? In order to
deal with perceptive signs, is it necessary to modify basic assumptions in semiotics, or can we
simply extend the range of our conceptual instruments and definitions? And what if perception is a
wholly different semiotic machinery, to be considered as sui generis, but nonetheless interesting for
a general theory of semiotics?
By exposing the major ideas put forward by the main thinkers in the semiotic field, Mattia de
Bernardis gives a comprehensive picture of the theoretical situation, adding to the classical
dichotomy between structuralist and interpretative semiotics another distinction, that between
homogeneist and etherogeneist theories of perception. Homogeneist semioticians see perception as
one of many semiotic means of sign production, totally similar to the other ones, while
heterogeneist semioticians consider perceptive meaning as essentially different from normal
semiotic meaning, so much so that it requires new methods and ideas to be analyzed.
The main example of etherogeneist approach to perception in semiotic literature, Umberto Eco’s
“primary semiosis” is then presented, critically examined and eventually rejected and the
homogeneist stance is affirmed as the most promising path towards a semiotic theory of perception.
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Odoardi, Paolo <1980>. "Testo e memoria tra semiotica e scienze cognitive: una situazione sperimentale intorno al ricordo di un film." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2009. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/2074/.
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The research project presented in this dissertation is about text and memory. The title of the work is "Text and memory between Semiotics and Cognitive Science: an experimental setting about remembering a movie". The object of the research is the relationship between texts or "textuality" - using a more general semiotic term - and memory. The goal is to analyze the link between those semiotic artifacts that a culture defines as autonomous
meaningful objects - namely texts - and the cognitive performance of memory that allows to remember them. An active dialogue between Semiotics and Cognitive Science is the theoretical paradigm in which this research is set, the major intend is to establish a productive alignment between the "theory of text" developed in Semiotics and the "theory of memory" outlined in Cognitive Science. In particular the research is an attempt to study how human subjects remember and/or misremember a film, as a specific case study; in semiotics, films are “cinematographic texts”. The research is based on the production of a corpus of data gained through the qualitative method of interviewing. After an initial screening of a fulllength feature film each participant of the experiment has been interviewed twice, according to a pre-established set of questions. The first interview immediately after the screening: the subsequent, follow-up interview three months from screening. The purpose of this design is to elicit two types of recall from the participants. In order to conduce a comparative inquiry, three films have been used in the experimental setting. Each film has been watched by thirteen subjects, that have been interviewed twice. The corpus of data is then made by seventy-eight interviews. The present dissertation displays the results of the investigation of these interviews. It is divided into six main parts. Chapter one presents a theoretical framework about the two main issues: memory and text. The issue of the memory is introduced through many recherches drown up in the field of Cognitive Science and Neuroscience. It is developed, at the same time, a possible relationship with a semiotic approach. The theoretical debate about textuality, characterizing the field of Semiotics, is examined in the same chapter. Chapter two deals with methodology, showing the process of definition of the whole method used for production of the corpus of data. The interview is explored in detail: how it is born, what are the expected results, what are the main underlying hypothesis. In Chapter three the investigation of the answers given by the spectators starts. It is examined the phenomenon of the outstanding details of the process of remembering, trying to define them in a semiotic way. Moreover there is an investigation of the most remembered scenes in the movie. Chapter four considers how the spectators deal with the whole narrative. At the same time it is examined what they think about the global meaning of the film. Chapter five is about affects. It tries to define the role of emotions in the process of comprehension and remembering. Chapter six presents a study of how the spectators account for a single scene of the movie. The complete work offers a broad perspective about the semiotic issue of textuality, using both a semiotic competence and a cognitive one. At the same time it presents
a new outlook on the issue of memory, opening several direction of research.
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Backhouse, Camilla, and Matilda Kock. "I det stereotypa blickfånget : En kvalitativ analys av huvudrollskaraktären Saga Norén i tv-serien Bron, ur ett genusperspektiv." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Media- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-27082.
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Denna studie är en kvalitativ filmanalys av den populära tv-serien Bron, med fokus på huvudkaraktären Saga Norén. Studien utgår från teorier kring den manliga och kvinnliga blicken. Uppsatsens syfte är att belysa ämnet kring hur en kvinna förväntas uppträda utifrån de rådande normerna, men också hur hon uppfattas av andra. Uppbyggnaden av genus- och könsmaktsordning är ett ständigt relevant forskningsämne, där mediernas kraft att påverka publiken spelar en viktig roll. Studien är baserad på könsteorier som relaterar till stereotyper, såväl som den manliga blicken. Till studiens analysdel skapades ett analysverktyg baserat på Selby och Cowderys trestegsmodell och mise-en-scén. De scener som valdes ut för analysen sorterades i fyra olika kategorier baserat på återkommande mönster. Varje kategori sammanfattades i en kort sektion, som samtliga diskuteras i det sista avsnittet. Resultatet av studien visar att Saga Norén avviker från hur en stereotyp kvinnlig karaktär förväntas uppträda. Hennes sätt att framträda, och det avvikande beteendemönstret bidrar också till att hon inte upplevs att synas i bild för att behaga någon.<br>This study is a qualitative film analysis focusing on the main character Saga Norén in the popular tv series Bron, based on the male and female gaze. The essay highlights the topic of how a woman is expected to behave based on the prevailing gender roles, but also how she is perceived by others. The construction of gender and gender roles is a constantly relevant research topic, where the media's power to influence the audience plays an important role. The study is based on gender theories that relate to stereotypes, as well as the male gaze. For the analysis part of the study, an analysis tool was created based on Selby and Cowdery's three-stage model and mise-en-scène, using these theories as a foundation. The scenes selected for the analysis were sorted into four various categories based on recurring patterns. Each category was summarized in a short section, to be discussed in the final section. The result of the study shows that Saga Norén departs from how the stereotype female character is expected to behave. Her way of appearing, and the deviant behavior pattern also contributes to her not being perceived to exist in a position to please.
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Meneghelli, Agata <1977>. "Per un approccio semiotico ai videogiochi tra memoria culturale e memoria corporea." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2009. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/2075/.
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La tesi propone un approccio semiotico ai videogiochi e indaga le relazioni tra videogioco, memoria e senso, a partire dall’analisi di un ampio corpus di videogiochi, trasversale rispetto ai generi. Il lavoro intende mostrare la proficuità di un incontro tra semiotica e videogiochi sotto un duplice punto di vista: da un lato i videogiochi, in quanto oggetti “nuovi”, rappresentano un buon banco di
prova per la teoria e la metodologia semiotica; dall’altro lato la semiotica permette di comprendere meglio i videogiochi, ricostruendo i meccanismi semiotici che contribuiscono a generare gli effetti di senso tipici di questa forma testuale (es. immersività, interattività, flusso…). Il lavoro si propone quindi il duplice obiettivo di individuare le peculiarità del videogioco in quanto oggetto di analisi semiotica (cap. 1) e i meccanismi che in diversi generi videoludici portano alla creazione di effetti
di senso peculiari e alla costruzione di una nuova memoria (capp. 3, 4, 5). Il primo capitolo è dedicato a una riflessione teorica e metodologica che intende preparare il campo per l’analisi, provando a “testare” modelli, concetti e strumenti più o meno assestati con lo scopo di riconoscere lo statuto semiotico dei videogiochi e di individuare il modo migliore per analizzarli semioticamente. Inoltre nel cap. 1 si affrontano, ancora in un’ottica generale, le dinamiche tra memoria del gioco e memoria del giocatore e l’importanza dei processi di apprendimento per l’interpretazione videoludica. Gli ultimi tre capitoli sono invece dedicati ai risultati delle analisi, condotte su un corpus ampio di videogiochi, affiancato da un corpus “di controllo” costituito da video di partite concrete, immagini user-generated, interfacce fisiche di gioco e “discorsi su” i videogiochi inseriti nel corpus principale. Il terzo capitolo individua i meccanismi semiotici che contribuiscono a costruire, de-costruire e ricostruire l’identità del giocatore nel corso della partita. Il quarto capitolo affronta la relazione tra tempo del gioco e tempo del giocatore, concentrandosi sulle modalità di configurazione del tempo in atto nei diversi generi videoludici. L’ultimo capitolo è dedicato all’approfondimento di un aspetto particolare della testualità videoludica: la capacità dei videogiochi di generare esperienze embodied, cioè esperienze ‘incarnate’ e ‘situate’.