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by Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos, Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou, Maria Giulia Dondero, Jacques Fontanille, Maria Ilia Katsaridou, Rea Walldén
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3110991845 | 456 pages | True PDF EPUB | 14.07 MB
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.