UMBERTO ECO ABOUT ARTICULATIONS OF THE CINEMATOGRAPHIC CODE (TRANSLATED BY E. M. SPIROVA)

Abstract: Being even a more profound mean of communication than speech, cinematograph has its own “language”, a system of audio and visual codes transmitting a certain message to the audience. By analyzing ideas of Pazolini and Metz who believed “image” and “action” to be the basic elements of cinematographic language, Umberto Eco studied types of such “codes” and their “articulations”.