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Semiotics of Images : The Analysis of Pictorial Texts / Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos, Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou, Maria Giulia Dondero, Jacques Fontanille, Maria Ilia Katsaridou, Rea Walldén.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] ; 37Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2024]Copyright date: 2025Description: 1 online resource (XVI, 437 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110991840
  • 9783110980288
  • 9783110980257
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.2
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical issues -- Chapter 1 Approaches to the semiotics of images: The object of study -- Chapter 2 The semiotics of the static image: The structuralist tradition -- Chapter 3 The semiotics of the dynamic image -- Chapter 4 The iconic and the plastic dimensions -- Chapter 5 The plastic signifier -- Chapter 6 Visual semiotics: From structuralism to the material turn of big visual data -- Part II: Interpreting the static image -- Chapter 7 Isotopies in painting -- Chapter 8 Serial analysis of the pictorial work: Series, networks, rhizomes, interstitial space-times -- Chapter 9 The Greimasian and post-Greimasian semiotics of photography -- Part III: Interpreting the dynamic image -- Chapter 10 Light, shadows and revolution: Cinema’s expression substance and the question of the avant-garde -- Chapter 11 How the story is told: Arrival -- Chapter 12 Ingmar Bergman’s The seventh seal: What kind of play is life? -- Chapter 13 Semiotic analysis of animation films: A case study of Ratatouille -- Chapter 14 Semiotic analysis of digital games -- Chapter 15 A semiotics-based methodology for script creation: Linear and interactive narratives -- References -- About the authors -- Index
Summary: This book represents a unique collaborative effort to bring together the multiple aspects of the semiotics of images into a coherent approach based on Greimasian and post-Greimasian theory. Starting with a critical discussion of epistemological and theoretical issues and continuing with methodology and numerous examples of applied analysis, it aims to provide the educated reader with a consistent and unified theoretical framework for the semiotic study of visual cultural texts. It offers a comprehensive overview of the semiotics of static images such as painting, drawing, sculpture and photography, but also dynamic images such as cinema, animation and digital games. Readers will benefit from the special emphasis placed on the analysis of the pictorial signifier, visual syntax and the structuring of the semantic universe.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical issues -- Chapter 1 Approaches to the semiotics of images: The object of study -- Chapter 2 The semiotics of the static image: The structuralist tradition -- Chapter 3 The semiotics of the dynamic image -- Chapter 4 The iconic and the plastic dimensions -- Chapter 5 The plastic signifier -- Chapter 6 Visual semiotics: From structuralism to the material turn of big visual data -- Part II: Interpreting the static image -- Chapter 7 Isotopies in painting -- Chapter 8 Serial analysis of the pictorial work: Series, networks, rhizomes, interstitial space-times -- Chapter 9 The Greimasian and post-Greimasian semiotics of photography -- Part III: Interpreting the dynamic image -- Chapter 10 Light, shadows and revolution: Cinema’s expression substance and the question of the avant-garde -- Chapter 11 How the story is told: Arrival -- Chapter 12 Ingmar Bergman’s The seventh seal: What kind of play is life? -- Chapter 13 Semiotic analysis of animation films: A case study of Ratatouille -- Chapter 14 Semiotic analysis of digital games -- Chapter 15 A semiotics-based methodology for script creation: Linear and interactive narratives -- References -- About the authors -- Index

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This book represents a unique collaborative effort to bring together the multiple aspects of the semiotics of images into a coherent approach based on Greimasian and post-Greimasian theory. Starting with a critical discussion of epistemological and theoretical issues and continuing with methodology and numerous examples of applied analysis, it aims to provide the educated reader with a consistent and unified theoretical framework for the semiotic study of visual cultural texts. It offers a comprehensive overview of the semiotics of static images such as painting, drawing, sculpture and photography, but also dynamic images such as cinema, animation and digital games. Readers will benefit from the special emphasis placed on the analysis of the pictorial signifier, visual syntax and the structuring of the semantic universe.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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