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Zusatztext This fresh and innovative study displays a very confident and provocative reading of systemic semiotics, with insightful analysis of classic films including Blowup and its short story adaptation, together with the magic of The Purple Rose of Cairo that both scholars and students will find very stimulating. Informationen zum Autor Piotr Sadowski is a Lecturer in Communication and Humanities in the Department of Film and Creative Media at Dublin Business School, Ireland. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Vorwort Provides an innovative new theory of semiotics and communication, based around the deductive theory of interacting systems. Zusammenfassung Against the background of often esoteric literature in semiotics, this book offers a fresh and rigorous new interpretation of how to approach the study of communication, signs and meaning. Grounded in a deductive theory of interacting systems, Piotr Sadowski's book provides an accessible account of the hierarchy of communication.Divided into two parts, this book argues in the first section that a deductive semiotic theory generates communication situations of increasing complexity, from contiguous communication to indirect, referential forms based on indexical, iconic, and symbolic signs. Within this system, Sadowski explains how key concepts of the semiotic model such as information, parainformation and metainformation can account for degrees of cognitive complexity of communication processes, including the perception and interpretation of signs on literal and figurative levels. After this clear, step-by-step exposition of the theory of interacting systems, Systemic Semiotics then explores various applications of this theory, providing new insights into problems subsumed under communication studies, cultural theory, literary and film studies, and psychology. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Part I: Theory 1. Interaction as Communication2. Types of Communication3. Information and Levels of Meaning4. Between Indexicality and Iconicity5. The (Mostly) Symbolic Signs of Verbal Language Part II: Applications 6. Oscar Wilde and Dynamism of Character7. The Esthetics of Light in Early Cinema8. Photography and the Limitations of Indexicality in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blowup (1966)9. The Iconicity of the Pictorial Frame10. The Iconic Magic of Cinema in Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)PostscriptNotesBibliographyIndex...
