Film Studies 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Run Lola Run, Roland Barthes, Louis Althusser
17 Apr 2016
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Ferdinand de saussure: sign= signifier + signified. Roland barthes: two orders or signification. Denotative value of the image (the literal or surface meaning) Connotation value of the image (the level of interpretation) From these values we read ideological meanings (denotative + connotative. Myth does not mean fiction or fantasy: the change of concepts that we accept in a culture by which the members of that culture understand a particular topic or part of there social experience. In film there is no true literal reality, it is a constructed reality: louis althusser. The subjects aren"t just empty vessels for interpretations, When ideology is revealed it can be challenged and changed: referential level of meaning is approximate to denotative and connotative levels of meaning. Spiral bar, spiral time line, spiral stair case. Reflexive or self reflective film is one that reveals principals of its on construction. >draws attention to how it is made: film as a production.
