New vocabularies in film semiotics: structuralism, post-structuralism and beyond - Stam, Robert; Burgoyne, Robert; Flitterman-Lewis, Sandy (London: Routledge, 1992)
The origins of semiotics. Semiotics and the philosophy of language. The founders of semiotics. Russian formalism. the bakhtin school. Prague structuralism. Cine - semiology. The cinamatic sing. Minimal units and their cinematic articulation. Cinema: langue or langage. The grand syntagmatique. Film-narratology. The semiotics of narrative. Film as a narrative art: formalist approaches. Contemporary models of formal structure. The structuralist analysis of narrative. Psychoanalysis. From realism to intertextuality. Cinematic realism. Ideology and the camera
Keywords: Cine