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Semiotics Flashcards

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What is semiotics

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The study of how meanings are made

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What is the signifier

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The form which the signs take

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What is the signified

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The concept it represents

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What is Charles Peirce’s Triadic model

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Symbolic, iconic, indexical

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What is a symbolic sign

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There is no physical relationship

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What is an iconic sign

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Looks like the thing it signfys

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What is an indexical sign

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There is a casual relationship

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What is Barthes myths and ideologies theory

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A myth is a group of shared cultural connotations that reflects a dominant ideology

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What is anchorage

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A fixed meaning

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What are the different types of camera shots

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Extreme close up, close up, mid-shot, long-shot, wide-shot, high angle, low angle, canted, two shot, Birds Eye, point of view, pan, zoom, track

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What is Mise-en-scéne

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The placement of everything in the frame

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What are propps character types

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Villain, dispatcher, helper, mentor, heroine, wise advisor, false hero

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What is Strauss theory’s on binaries

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We make sense of the world through opposites. Rich vs poor

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What are Barthes 5 narrative codes

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Enimga, action, semantic, symbolic, cultural

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What is an enigma code

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The audience have to keep watching to find answers

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What’s is an action code

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Small units of cause and effect moments

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What are semantic codes

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When there’s More than one meaning

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What is a symbolic code

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Refers to the Deeper meaning of a text

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What’s is a cultural code

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Refers to a shared understanding of

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What is neales genre theory

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Genre is not a set of static categories that constantly draw on the same repetitive elements .

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What’s is Altmens genre theory

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Genre has unclear boarders

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What’s is intertextuality

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When one text purposefully references another.

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