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23 Cards in this Set
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Visual culture |
Encompasses a great deal more than the study of images. Centrality of vision and the visual world in producing meaning, establishing and matching aesthtic values |
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Formal analysis |
Criticism concerned with organization and style. How stylistic features are place used in certain way. In depth critical analysis of style and aesthics |
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Form and feeling |
Emotion. Distinguish emotions represented in the artwork and an emotional response felt by spectator |
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Form and meaning |
Spectator constantly testing work for larger significance. Meanings may vary considerably |
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Story structure |
Beginning- peripeteia:complications Middle-order End |
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Elements that determine structure of story |
Theme Style Genre Character |
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Gregory crewdaon |
Narrative photography |
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Characters |
Introduction Complexity and development Identification Relations Resolution |
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Complex/quality tv |
Seriality and narrative arch Breaking genre conventions Detailed character development Antihero High production like cinema Sophisticated audience |
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Genre |
A category of artistic composition |
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Elements in genre |
Narrative conventions Use of character style Use of stars Audience expectations Industrial factors Cultural historical |
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Semiotics |
The study of signs |
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Channel |
Verbal non verbal communication |
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Semantic noise |
Elements that disrupt channel from sender to receiver |
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Signs |
Signifier: form it takes Signified: the meaning or concept sign represents |
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Icon |
Signs whose signifier bears a close resemblance to the thing they refer to |
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Index |
A sign by virtue of an existential bond between itself and its object |
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Symbol |
Signs that we agreed they shall mean what they mean. Demands neither resemblance or existential bond with it |
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Semantics |
The relationship of signs to what they stand for |
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Syntactics |
The formal or structural relations between signs |
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Roland Barthes |
Death of the author essay argues that writer and creator are unrelated and meaning depends on interpretation |
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Structuralism |
Analytical method that seeks to describe overall organization of sign systems as languages |
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Meaning |
Denotative: explicit meaning of sign Connotative: meaning is not objective, but derived from society and experience. |
