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1 Semiotics and Television Ellen Seiter

2 Semiotics semiotics sign image

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4 De Saussure: Signs become defined by their differences with other signs in a system.

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6 Betty Crocker Example of both icon and symbol: 1936 to present

7 House With Smoke Example of indexical sign

8 Barthes Denotation Connotation (Connotation obscuring Denotation)

9 Matthias Grunewald, Crucifixion, 1512-1515

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12 Barthes Denotation Connotation (Connotation obscuring Denotation) Destablization of a Sign

13 Barthes Denotation Connotation (Connotation obscuring Denotation) Some More Terms Iconographic Iconography Iconoclast Codes Decode

14 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

15 More Kinds of Signs Metaphor Metonymy Synecdoche

16 Example of Metonymy

17 Example of Synecdoche

18 Paradigmatic/syntagmatic

19 Critical Theory Examples Freudian (Psychoanalysis) Jungian Feminist Enthic Marxist Semiotics

20 Freud: Id, Ego, Super Ego

21 Freud: Sublimation

22 Freud: “Penis Envy”

23 Freud: Fear of Castration

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