During the 1960s and 1970s, semioticians extended their analytical frameworks to non-linguistic communicational media such as cinema (42/1). Among them, Claude Lévi-Strauss played a decisive role by proposing that any cultural system structured through signs and governed by internal rules could be analysed in a manner analogous to language. Consequently, semiotics and linguistics constitute foundational theoretical pillars…

What characterizes communication—both verbal and visual—is the desire to transmit an idea accurately. Such transmission can only occur through an appropriate structure. Structure must be subordinated to the specific characteristics of the concept it conveys; therefore, it must adapt itself to the nature of the idea being communicated. In this sense, structure is not an…

Linguistic relations with the sequence We all recognize powerful communicative elements in cinema. Likewise, powerful communicative forms exist within the printed and graphic arts. In the attempt to understand how cinema communicates, many theorists have compared it to language (23/18). However, cinema does not function as language in the same way that verbal language does.…

This dissertation examines the relationship between language, structure, and sequence in cinema, and explores how these elements function as mechanisms of communication. Central to this investigation is the question: Does the sequential structure of communication facilitate a clearer understanding of the author’s intention? Sequential structures are fundamental to human communication. They are present in basic linguistic…

16 of may 2005edinburgh college of art, ecalauriston place,edinburgh, scotlandmaster in illustrationvisual communication department name:david marquez dissertation title:The perfect image sub-title:An analysis of the relationship between the sequential structures in cinema facilitating communication in the graphic visual arts.