Preliminary Exercise 1 - Semiotics
Roland Barthes' Theory of Semiotics Ronald Barthes was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, citric, and semiotician. His ideas explored a diverse range of fields, and he influenced the development of many schools of theory, including structuralism, social theory and semiotics. Roland Barthes' Theory broke down the process of reading signs and focused on their interpretation by different cultures or societies. Barthes' believed that signs had both a signifier, being physical for of the sign as we predive it through our senses and the signified or meaning that is interpreted. In this plot from the movie "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire", Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark are being asked questions about their wedding that failed to take place. Katniss shows everyone what her wedding dress would have looked like if she and Peeta were to follow along with the wedding. Then, Peeta suddenly announces that they actually got married in private wh
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