Flashcard sets with a 'semiotics' term meaning 'also called semiology, is the study of how movies signify. a theory (from french theorist, christian metz) of cinematic communication founded on the concept of signs and codes: the language of cinema, like all types of discourse, verbal and nonverbal, is primarily symbolic. it consists of a complex nextwork of signs we instinctively decipher while experiencing a movie. spike lee's do the right thing; studies quick signs seen throughout movies'

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