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Semiotics and Television Ellen Seiter
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Semiotics semiotics sign image
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De Saussure: Signs become defined by their differences with other signs in a system.
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Betty Crocker Example of both icon and symbol: 1936 to present
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House With Smoke Example of indexical sign
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Barthes Denotation Connotation (Connotation obscuring Denotation)
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Matthias Grunewald, Crucifixion, 1512-1515
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Barthes Denotation Connotation (Connotation obscuring Denotation) Destablization of a Sign
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Barthes Denotation Connotation (Connotation obscuring Denotation) Some More Terms Iconographic Iconography Iconoclast Codes Decode
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Iconography: Jan van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride, 1434. Shoes: Commandment to Moses to take off shoes when on sacred soil Dog: Symbolized marital faithfulness Candle: Christ’s presence between couple Mirror: Eye of God Belly: Symbolizing fertility, and was the trend Fruit: Connected with Virgin Mary
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More Kinds of Signs Metaphor Metonymy Synecdoche
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Example of Metonymy
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Example of Synecdoche
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Paradigmatic/syntagmatic
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Critical Theory Examples Freudian (Psychoanalysis) Jungian Feminist Enthic Marxist Semiotics
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Freud: Id, Ego, Super Ego
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Freud: Sublimation
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Freud: “Penis Envy”
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Freud: Fear of Castration
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