Essays about: "semiotics film"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the words semiotics film.

1. 1. The Mirror in the Artwork : A Semiotic Psychoanalysis of Season Two of The White Lotus

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Anne Wright; [2023]
   Keywords : psychoanalysis; mise en scèn; Lacanian Mirror Theory; The White Lotus; surveillance; Renaissance art; cultural capital; Bordieu; semiotics in film; Monaco; montage theory; Kuleshov effect; Christian Metz;

   Abstract : This text uses a semiotic psychoanalytical framework to analyze season two of The White Lotus. This text examines the significance of the artwork of the show and applies Lacan’s mirror theory to the series’ artwork and the character Ethan. READ MORE

3. 2. Western Esotericism references in Dario Argento’s triology The Three Mothers

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Emilie Spagnoli; [2023]
   Keywords : Occultism; Esotericism; film critic; Steiner; feminine power; gender; Dario Argento; horror cinema; Suspiria; Inferno; The Mother of Tears;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to explore the influences and references, with a particular focus from occultism and western esotericism, found in the film trilogy of The Three Mothers directed by Dario Argento. The trilogy composed of Suspiria, Inferno and The Mother of Tears was produced in a timeframe of thirty years from 1977 to 2007, so it embeds three decades, it also reflects the willingness from the director to disconnect himself from the usual representation of supernatural and horror films of witches and power. READ MORE

4. 3. The Shades of Styles : A human search for words communicating all aspects of styles.

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Erlend Hellerslien; [2021]
   Keywords : Style; Styles; Shades of Styles; Digital Style; Design Theory; Semiotic Theory; Semiotics; Semantics; Seethics; Design Inclusion; User Experience Design; Cultural Analytics; Visual Worlds; Art Historical Writing; Digital Art History; Visual Studies; Visual Literacy; Human Communication; Digital Style Dictionary; Digital Visual Compass; Spectrum; Reality; Multi Realities; Core Reality; Abstract Reality; Surreal Reality; Artifical Reality; Phenomenolgy; Moral; Ethics; Labels; Critical Terms; Aspects of Seeing; Representation; Transpace Style; Swisch; Style; Medium; RAW; Image; Artifical Intelligence; AI; Visual Exploration; Humankind; Fundamentals; Bias; Gizmos; Hyperreality; Mythologies; Sterotyping; Discrimination; Stories of Art; Synesthesia; Post-truth; Fake Photo; Creativity; Art Direction; Editing; Advertising; Manipulation; Marketing; Animation; Photography; Film; Ilustration; Graphic Design; Arcitecture; Color; Icon; Beauty; Human Commonality; Respect; Diversity;

   Abstract : This research is an investigative attempt on the concept of style´s development to potentially noticing our diverse human history on viewing the aspect of styles, starting (in the part one) by looking into the problem of the development of styles and its characteristic of representation in terms of its messages, realties, semiotics, and human collaboration. Leading towards the human search in seeing style more commonly neutral for a more meaningful dialog. READ MORE

5. 4. Every Body in its Place : The reproduction of inequality by way of education in Metropolis and Snowpiercer 

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Lärarutbildningen

   Author : Ebbe Bjelkendal; [2020]
   Keywords : Ideology; ideological state apparatuses; pedagogic action; pedagogic authority; science fiction; corporatism; neoliberalism;

   Abstract : With increasing inequality in the world, having knowledge about the apparatuses maintaining unequal social structures is important. Utopian and dystopian science fiction films are a good source for analysis of social structures, due to their inherent interest in social critique and the role of semiotics in the spreading of ideology. READ MORE

6. 5. Intersemiotic Translation from Film to Audio Description: A cognitive semiotic approach

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Kognitiv semiotik; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

   Author : Ida Stevia Krogh Diget; [2019]
   Keywords : cognitive semiotics; semiotics; intersemiotic translation; translation; linguistics; film; audio description; narratology; narratives; narrative levels; narrative structure; multimodality; multimodal narratives; polysemiotic communication; Visual Into Words; VIW project; VIW corpus; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Audiovisual content is heavily prevalent in many modern societies. Film, in particular, is a favourite form of entertainment to many. Film is by nature both multimodal and polysemiotic, employing the modalities of visual and auditive as well as the semiotic systems of language, gesture, depiction and music. READ MORE