Chapter 1 Approaches to the semiotics of images: The object of study

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of figures XIII
4. List of tables XVII
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Theoretical issues
7. Chapter 1 Approaches to the semiotics of images: The object of study 15
8. Chapter 2 The semiotics of the static image: The structuralist tradition 46
9. Chapter 3 The semiotics of the dynamic image 88
10. Chapter 4 The iconic and the plastic dimensions 123
11. Chapter 5 The plastic signifier 139
12. Chapter 6 Visual semiotics: From structuralism to the material turn of big visual data 165
13. Part II: Interpreting the static image
14. Chapter 7 Isotopies in painting 191
15. Chapter 8 Serial analysis of the pictorial work: Series, networks, rhizomes, interstitial space-times 208
16. Chapter 9 The Greimasian and post-Greimasian semiotics of photography 226
17. Part III: Interpreting the dynamic image
18. Chapter 10 Light, shadows and revolution: Cinema’s expression substance and the question of the avant-garde 257
19. Chapter 11 How the story is told: Arrival 281
20. Chapter 12 Ingmar Bergman’s The seventh seal: What kind of play is life? 303
21. Chapter 13 Semiotic analysis of animation films: A case study of Ratatouille 324
22. Chapter 14 Semiotic analysis of digital games 354
23. Chapter 15 A semiotics-based methodology for script creation: Linear and interactive narratives 379
24. References 405
25. About the authors 421
26. Index 423