Applying Roland Barthes' approach to the semiological analysis of the photographic image to cinematography (Applying it to the film: The Silence of the Lambs)

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1 Faculty of Applied Arts - 6th of October University - 6th of October City - Giza

2 faculty of applied arts - October 6 university

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The film has a very complex nature, which gives the film its distinguishing features from any other artistic genre, and the film is a field of study closely related to semiological analysis because the film consists of different signs, and among the semiological studies is what Roland Barthes, the writer and philosopher specializing in semiology, presented about the analysis and study of the photographic image, However, his studies were limited to the photographic image only and did not address the attempt to apply this to cinematography or even the cinematic film in general. The vocabulary of Roland Barthes’s method includes the study of three vocabulary, which are anchoring, the original significance, the additional significance, and finally the narration codes. The Silence of the Lambs was chosen because it is considered Widely regarded as one of the best films ever produced, it is of course a complex cinematic masterpiece, and has won several awards, the most important of which are the Academy Award (five awards), the Golden Globe Award, the BAFTA Award and 39 other awards, and in 1999 it ranked 65th for the best cinema films. America for over 100 years. The study aims to study the possibility of applying the Bather approach to the elements of cinematography during the film. The research results support the possibility of applying this approach to analyze the elements of cinematography (the lighting unit - the color unit - the camera movement unit - the shooting angles unit).

Key words: Roland Barthes - narrative codes – Anchorage – Denotation and Connotation

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