Reading Time: 16 minutesOverview A close-up of trembling hands. A red dress at a crime scene. A two-note musical motif just before something terrible happens. Each of these is a sign. Semiotics is the study of how signs work and how they make meaning. The field grew from the work of Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles Sanders Peirce,… Continue reading Semiotics in Film Studies: Signs, Codes and Meaning