Ferdinand De Saussure’s Approach to Film as a System of Signs

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concepts like morality, identity or transformation. The extension of Ferdinand de Saussure’s linguistic theory to the study of film reveals cinematic industry as a coherent and structured sign system rather than just a simple sequence of images and sounds. Just as linguistic signs cooperate and interact within the language, cinematic elements such as editing, framing and performance generating interact within the broader film structure. References: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Ferdinand de Saussure. (1916/2011). Course in General Linguistics (W. Baskin, Trans.). New York: Columbia University Press. (Original work published 1916.) Roland Barthes. (1977). Image–Music–Text (S. Heath, Trans.). London: Fontana Press. Christian Metz. (1974). Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema (M. Taylor, Trans.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Claude Lévi-Strauss. (1963). Structural Anthropology (C. Jacobson & B. G. Schoepf, Trans.). New York: Basic Books. Umberto Eco. (1976). A Theory of Semiotics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Vol. 6, No. 4 – Special Issue (EJAR) 490 ISSN: 2181-2020