Signing Italian/American Cinema: A More Focused Look

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The essays in this book all share a common notion that a greater awareness of the potentiality of signification of sign functions is an indispensable tool for a more extensive understanding of how a film might signify--indeed, about how any text might signify. That said, I should state here at the outset that my use of the binomial "extensive understanding" is by no means evaluative; my only intention is to underscore that through semiotics and its various components of interpretation we can testify to the greater potentiality of signification that any text--e.g., cinematic, written, figurative--may produce with respect to a more conventional analytical process that, as well, does not take into consideration secondary or tertiary functions of the signs in question