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    Nowadays‚ music videos are made with many purposes in mind as they are created simultaneously with almost every song that is released today. It gives the opportunity to promote the artist and not only their songs since many appreciate them for their music videos or even their charisma. The video in question is the engrossing Windowlicker from the artist Aphex Twin and director Chris Cunningham. Their aim was to create a parody of the M.T.V culture and popular mainstream hip-hop music (black and

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    it does so in such a beautiful classy way that the issues promoted seem barely shocking at all. In this semiotic analysis I will argue and explain how the women show that they are rebelling against patriarchy through signs of female sexualisation‚ rebellion against gender roles and female independence. Finally I will analyse what this reveals about our culture. As a starting point of analysis‚ it is mandatory to focus on the advertisement itself. The viewer is presented with what seems to be a

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    which women should be treated. Music videos is one of the types of media where women are demoralized and are seen as sexual objects. An example of a music video in which women are represented negatively and are being degraded is Rihanna’s ‘We Found Love’. The main woman starring in this video is the artist‚ Rihanna. Rihanna is a very successful singer and is many peoples idea of a role model. There are plenty of people all around the world‚ who listen to her music and wish to become just like her

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    Semiotics Mind Map 1. Process school. Figure: See section 6. “’It sees communication as a process by which one person affects the behaviour or state of mind of another” Fiske (2011: 2) The Message 2. Semiotics Figure: See section 7. “The second school (semiotics) sees communication as the production and exchange of meanings” Fiske (2011: 2) Signification __? The message interacts with people on order to produce meanings The Message 3. Signs and Codes “Signs are artefacts or acts

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    1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Purpose statement This essay presents information on culture and identity based on Stuart Hall and Kath Woodward as well as information on the Astrophotography subculture and a semiotic analysis on three objects from this subculture and how this is indeed a subculture based on Paul Hodkinson’s four criteria’s. 1.2. Culture according to Stuart Hall According to Stuart Hall (2003:1)‚ culture is about “shared meanings”. Culture: Hall (2003:1) “is not so much a set of things…or

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    Illustrating a female body in an advertising image is a common case. I have chosen to implement a semiotic analysis of the men’s fragrance advertisement based on Roland Barthes’s theory of the image. On the layout of the advertisement by Tom Ford appears a part of woman’s body. Cutting half of the head off from the top and everything beneath the breast from the bottom it is only possible to see her open mouth with red lipstick and her hands with red nail polish squeezing the breasts together to

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    A logical place to start may be to ask ‘what is news?’ Professor Jonathan Bignell suggests that ‘news is not just facts‚ but representations produced in language and other signs like photographs.’ The newspaper is just one medium of news communication; other media include television‚ radio‚ magazines‚ and the Internet. We will concentrate on a particular news item as covered in three different British daily newspapers‚ namely The Sun‚ The Telegraph‚ and The Times. The story which is being covered

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    Hall (2003) proposed that culture that plays a primary role in how meaning is constructed. A basic genetic feature of human beings is the ability to classify‚ and a system of classification (the way in which we can conceptually group information) is learnt in society. Therefore‚ culture consists of our shared conceptual maps. ’Translatability is not given by nature nore fixed by the gods. It is the result of a set of social conventions.’ (Hall 2003). Over time‚ speakers of a culture have come

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    gender equality were more visible in society‚ and the media propitiated this idea on television‚ radio. This paper will analyze the gender roles by using two video clips from two of America’s popular television drama sitcoms. A semiotic analysis can be applied to these shows because of the symbols they carry. A careful semiotic analysis of the popular television drama Bewitched and Jersey Shore‚ will show that women of this day and age are encouraged to be independent‚ career minded and are not

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    Messages‚ Signs‚ and Meanings A Basic Textbook in Semiotics and Communication 3rdedition Volume 1 in the series Studies in Linguistic and Cultural Anthropology Series Editor: Marcel Danesi‚ University of Toronto Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc. Toronto Disclaimer: Some images and text in the printed version of this book are not available for inclusion in the eBook. Messages‚ Signs‚ and Meanings: A Basic Textbook in Semiotics and Communication Theory‚ 3rdEdition by Marcel Danesi

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