New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics

CONTENTS
Notes on the contributors ix
Preface x
Part I The Origins of Semiotics 1
Semiotics and the philosophy of language 1
The founders of semiotics 4
Russian Formalism 10
The Bakhtin School 12
Prague structuralism 14
Jakobson’s communications paradigm 15
The advent of structuralism 18
Post-structuralism: the critique of the sign 23
Part II Cine-semiology 29
The cinematic sign 30
Minimal units and their cinematic articulation 32
Cinema: langue or langage? 34
The Grand Syntagmatique 38
The eight syntagmatic types 41
Codes and subcodes 50
Textual system 52
Textual analysis 54
Filmic punctuation 58
The semiotics of filmic sound 61
Language in the cinema 65