What do words, visual ads, art performances, make-up, uniforms, and pictures have in common? They all are signs—"something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity," to use the words of Charles Sanders...
Semiotics (from the Greek root sema [sign]) proposes to be a science of signs and symbols and how they function in both linguistic (human and culture) and nonlinguistic (natural and artificial) systems of communication. In both instances the science...
KRISTEVA, DON GIOVANNI, AND FEMINIST REVOLT One listens to it: Mozart, Schoenberg. One gives it shape: Don Juan, the ideal . . . hero, seductive because he is the master who defies fathers and the connoisseur of women never satisfied with one alone,...
THE COGNITIVE SEMIOTICS OF FILM Warren Buckland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000,174 pp. In The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, Warren Buckland discusses signification and meaning in film by taking up the timely debate between those who favor theoretical models rooted in linguistics...
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Recently I asked a 15-year-old boy what music he listened to. His answer: "No one you ever heard of." A perfect answer. Because what every fan needs, what every person should have, is music that is his own.Over the years, there's been a lot...
On a not-so-long ago Thursday night, about a third of the way into the taping of Michael Showalter’s debut comedy album at Union Hall in Park Slope, the 37-year-old comedian-writer-director noticed a strange sound coming from the first row. Meowing. Mewing, to be precise,...
