CFP: 12th world Congress of Semiotics Sofia 2014, 16-20 September New Bulgarian University

Semiotics is able to question, analyse and reveal processes of filmic signification. Whereas there are plenty of semiotic studies that are concerned with film themes or film plots, filmic language still requires a deeper understanding of its sign-processes. After Christian Metz and the wide deception of structuralism, or at least after Gilles Deleuze’s rather incoherent adaptation of Peircean semiotics to cinematic images, filmic semiotics should not remain a “hopeless field”. Rather should semioticians continue to analyse the phenomenological power of filmic language. It is the semiotician’s task to reveal the psychology and pedagogics of filmic sign-processes.

This round-table encourages any contribution that questions the logic of properly filmic significations. Possible approaches might be:

-        filmic language

-        iconicity and film

-        indexicality and film

-        symbolicity and film

-        cinematographic connotation and denotation

-        semiotics of filmic perception

-        semiotics of filmic montage

-        semiotics of the moving camera

-        diagrammatic structure of filmic images

-        semiotics of filmic movement, time and space

-        Deleuzian filmic semiotics

-        Metzian filmic semiotics

-        Semiotics of Hyper-reality

-        Semiotics of the postmodern cinema

-        Semiotics of the filmic psychology

-        ….