Signifier

attachment to an object” (Richardson 17). This distinction of the mother will follow Wordsworth through his life, as readers see in the “spots of time.” Also present during this period is a subtly stated connection with nature—which is the Symbolic signifier Wordsworth uses to stand in for the Real. Because the poet has yet to realize his individual status, he is still one with nature and the creative spirit of the universe. This is the closest Wordsworth will ever come to being in contact with…

person. Most of red 's symbolism today arises from associations in everyday life over long periods. To a lesser extent this is true for the chrome, but it includes a much smaller time period for the associations. The use of all capital letters is a signifier of the…

But this approach poses a problem too. It engages one in a close and tiresome analysis of all the scenes and sometimes shot by shot or frame by frame and the complex issue of the signifier and the signified often leads to misidentification which post-psychoanalytic film critics (like Cowie) often tend to avoid. Cowie’s argument stands rather in support of the cognitive approach to film. According to cognitive film theorists like Joseph…

during the 1800s in Russia - a time and setting which the writers of the play wanted to come through to the audience. Yet, relying solely on the script was not enough to give the desired effect. In professional theatre, sound is usually a good signifier for not the surrounding, but when it comes to a specific location background music will not do it - accents are necessary. Thankfully, as a class we silently agreed to not have a group of Swedish teenagers attempting a Russian accent in English,…

Content Theory Structuralism Structuralism is a theory that suggests that all ideas have a structure; “structuralists” believe that structures are the “real things” that lie beneath “the surface” or the appearance of meaning. (Sternagel, 2012) When using structuralism theory, we attempt to analyse the meaning or try to see a forming pattern. In films this theory emphasizes how certain film clips convey meaning through the use of codes and conventions that are similar to the way languages are…

smiles just hide the horrible truth of what these women go through in order to appear on the stage. From this, we can conclude that the signifier in a first moment tries to cheat the audience transmitting that the signified is the beauty, but in reality the `` true signified´´ and therefore the message behind all the video is ``the happiness´´. The signifier transmit to the public that the most important thing in life is ``be happy´´, because you can be the most beautiful girl in the…

either gays or lesbian individuals. In one sense this is very much true, however it is utterly simplistic and under-reaching. It would be a mistake overlook the array of other meanings in which the term queer can be applied. Before queer became a signifier of a person’s sexual orientation queer meant (and still means) strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint. Queer is synonymous with different, unusual, bizarre or even shady or questionable. By using this definition of queer, queer desire…

As a result, this forces the Arabs to become the only signifier we have for the history of the country. As the court proceeding continues, we learn that Meursault is actually on trial for his indifference rather than his murderous deed, ‘the horror which that crime aroused in him was almost overshadowed by the horror he felt at my cold indifference.’ This complicates the structure of power within the novel, as Meursault was still convicted and was not granted the expected flexibility for his…

nature. Furthermore, his use of the excess in imagery is typical of commodified films, and fails to meet Comolli and Narboni’s concept of taking action on both the “signified” and “signifiers” (690). With regard to this definition, Spurlock takes action on the signified, but fails to properly acknowledge the signifiers. The methods he uses to promote his film are typical of capitalism and he does not acknowledge this either implicitly or explicitly. His attempts to be more entertaining than…

In all its guises, design’s intention is to portray... to represent something for a viewer to decode, to connect a signifier to a signified. For this subject’s major project, I chose to pursue the visual medium of film posters. Inspired by my font, Curved’s design — which has a certain space-age, 1960s feel to it — I looked at creating film posters for, initially a 1969 “Doctor Who” story The Seeds of Death then, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). The latter, being a seminal piece…