HMS-540G Topics in Cinema/Media Studies: Semiotics of Media: Deleuze, Cinema and Beyond

3 Credits

This class will explore the semiotics of cinema as elaborated by Deleuze in his books Cinema 1 and Cinema 2. Deleuze develops a taxonomy of cinematic signs that displaces both linguistic-based semiotics and psychoanalytic approaches. How can we extend Deleuze’s categories to incorporate innovations in digital and new media?