The three films that we viewed in class were all without sound. All we saw were moving images; as Professor Ewen stated we were listening to the "sound of silence". ... Watching these films I found myself paying even closer attention to what was going on because there was no sound to back up the story. ... "Words, sounds, and pictures accomplish little unless they are tools of a soundly thought-out plan and carefully organized methods" (p.256). ... Alger's book is all about self-improvement, he gives us a sense of how you can transform from rags to riches without presenting himself as...

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The signifier is the image, whether it is sound, visual, etc. ... Saussure's model shows that the signifier is the sound image (spoken word), or multiple spoken words, and the signified is the concept being portrayed by those words. ... Barthes" semiotic theory looks for a cultural meaning of nonverbal signs such as text, sound, images, and artifacts. ... (Barthes 1972) "Semiology - the close analysis of process of meaning by which the Bourg Mythologies is, superficially at least, a rather puzzling title for a book concerned with the meanings of the signs that surround us in our every...

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