Cybernetics, semiotics and meaning in the cinema.
Date
1985
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Publisher
School of Communication. University of Johannesburg.
Abstract
This paper builds on Gene Youngblood's use of cybernetic theory in film analysis. It combines the cybernetic method with Peircian-derived semiotics in an attempt to derive a meta-theory of social process and film textual structure. An attempt is made to resolve the more deterministic elements of Youngblood's theory, developing a more probabilistic approach. The paper ends with some conjecture on how the cyber-semiotic theory developed can be combined
with Lacanian psychoanalysis and Marxist approaches developed by the scholars contributing to the British journal
Screen.
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Cybernetics., Motion pictures--Theory, etc., Film criticism., Semiotics.
Citation
Tomaselli, K.G. 1985. Cybernetics, semiotics and meaning in the cinema. Communicare 4(1) pp. 48-62.