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• W832459212 abstract "Introduction Tarsem Singh's The Fall (2006) explores the mechanics of semiotic miscommunication. The film's use of conflicting signifieds, and its exploration of the process of storytelling, illuminates Roland Barthes's theories of how meaning is created in verbal and visual communication. The film's nested narrative--a story-within-a-story adventure tale told by one character to another--provides for the viewing audience a visual confirmation of the misinterpretation of the storyteller character's intended meaning. At several points during the film, one character's intended meaning (as spoken verbally) is shown, misinterpreted, from the listener's point of view. The transformation which occurs between verbal discourse and visual representation allows the filmmakers to play with the idea of intended and understood meanings. Additionally, this semiotic disruption in communication speaks to the understanding of semiotics and the cultural specificity of the symbolic underpinnings of language. The Fall foregrounds the imprecision of language as a form of communication and the possible slippage inherent in sign-systems, which are dependent on cultural background and context, and therefore lead to the problems which occur when attempting to communicate across cultures. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The misunderstandings which occur in The Fall highlight the problems inherent in a communication system which relies on a concordance of visual and linguistic signifiers to convey meaning. In the popular press, films from smaller national cinemas can be positioned as windows that allow international audiences access to peoples and places from around the world. Semiotic analysis is of value when studying transnational cinema because it can help to reveal the problems inherent in assuming that the associative meanings which are held by one culture can be read unproblematically by audiences of different cultures. The specific production context of The Fall also resonates with the theme of global cinema, as it was made by Indian-born director Tarsem Singh. Better known for his work on commercial spots for Pepsi, Singh shot The Fall in over twenty countries, stitching together a visual landscape from pieces of nearly every continent. Making Meanings When Barthes writes that the Western world constitutes a civilization of writing, he argues that our perception and understanding of symbols are organized along linguistic lines. This position is similar to that of structural anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, who believed human beings to be naturally symbol-making creatures, who make sense of the world through a network of symbolic binary oppositions. Where Levi-Strauss believed he could find commonalities across all mythological narratives, Barthes--while not an anthropologist--turned this line of inquiry to his own society. Drawing on observations of daily life in France, his analyses of constructed visual images and prosaic activities led to a scheme through which to read images as language, using, as did Levi-Strauss, Saussure's theories of structural linguistics as a starting point to discuss how symbolic meanings are made. (1) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In The Fall, the differing cultural backgrounds of the two main characters acts as a barrier to communication, as does the difference in their ages and education levels. The character who begins telling the story is an American adult, with sufficient education to be able to speak eloquently about historical figures like Alexander the Great, while his audience is a young migrant worker with only a basic comprehension of English. In one sequence, for example, the adventure as shown on-screen takes place in India, despite the storyteller having used the words Indian, squaw, and wigwam to describe his characters and setting. For Barthes, meaning on this level is connotative, that which lies beyond the manifest or everyday. …" @default.
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• W832459212 title "Telling the (Wrong) Story: The Disintegration of Transcultural Communication and Narrative in the Fall" @default.
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