CONTENTS
Introduction / Winfried N$$\ddot o$$th = 1
PartⅠ : Semiotic foundations of the media = 13
Media and self-reference : The forgotten initial state / Solomon Marcus = 15
Media between Balnibarbi and Plato's Cave / G$$e'$$rard Deledalle = 49
The multimediation of the lifeworld / G$$\ddot o$$ran Sonesson = 61
The sign as medium, the medium relation as the foundation of the sign / Elisabeth Walther = 79
Semiosis of the mass media : Modeling a complex process / Martin Krampen = 87
The media contract / Lucrecia Escudero Chauvel = 99
PartⅡ : Pictorial and graphic semiotics = 109
Semiotics and ethics : The image of semiotics and semiotics of the image / Janice Deledalle-Rhodes = 111
The prephotographic, the photographic, and the postphotographic image / Lucia Santaella Braga = 121
Can pictures lie? / Winfried N$$\ddot o$$th = 133
On the semiotics of the image and the computer image / Luca Caneparo ; Gian Paolo Caprettini = 147
Pictorial metaphor in commercial advertising / Eli Rozik = 159
Representation and legitimacy : A semiotic approach to the logo / Beno$$\hat i$$t Heilbrunn = 175
Indexical/iconic tensions : The semiotics of the postage stamp / David Scott = 191
Combining the information of maps and other media while hiking / Dagmar Schmauks = 203
Part Ⅲ : Film, acting, and intermediality in the movies = 217
The delay of the cinema age / Warren Buckland = 219
The dialectic of the sign or journeys to Cape Fear / Michael Hayes = 231
Natural born killers : Rhythms of the filmic image and styles of violence / Alain J.-J. Cohen = 239
"How did you find us?" - "We read the script!" : A special case of self-reference in the movies / Gloria Withalm = 255
Words created in their own image / Lisa Block de Behar = 269
Discursive stupidity : Abduction and comic in "Monty Python's Flying Circus" - From Peirce to Freud / Uwe Wirth = 279
The semiotics of eating and orality in the movies / Petra Grimm = 291
Star images : Questions for semiotic analysis / Stephen Lowry = 307
Film acting and gender : Method acting and the male tantrum / Paul McDonald = 321
On some aspects of intermedial film transfer / Andrzej Gw$$dot o$$$$z'$$d$$z'$$ = 337
Media shift and intertextual reference / Hans Krah = 347
Death and rebirth of the author : On a specific case of an intermedial chiasmus between literature and film / Jochen Mecke = 363
PartⅣ : Television, video, and radio = 379
Television : The semiotic phenomenology of communication and the image / Richard L. Lanigan = 381
Where is the subject in the macromedia? The question of zapping / Michel Costantini = 393
The surrogate audience : Ostension of spectator response in televised shows / Philip C. Sutton = 403
Liquid images : A semiotic analysis of on-air promotion and TV design of TV stations / Michael M$$\ddot u$$ller ; Bernhard Springer = 417
Foreshadowing virtual reality in narrative and film / Claude Gandelman = 431
TV is dead, video is born : Dialogue and new intermedia communication / Massimo A. Bonfantini ; Susan Petrilli ; Augusto Ponzio = 441
Audience participation games : Consideration for parties other than the actual participant / Stephan Schlickau = 465
PartⅤ : Computers, electronic networks, hypertext, and cyberspace = 479
Objects and the world metaphor : A semiotic engineering approach / Ren$$e'$$J. Jorna ; Wout van Wezel = 481
Semiotics of computer media in architecture / Giuliano Maggiora ; Pio Luigi Brusasco ; Luca Caneparo = 497
"Electronic communities" as social worlds : Toward a sociosemiotic analysis of computer mediated interpersonal communication / Joachim R. H$$\ddot o$$flich = 507
The cold warmth of communication in computer networks / Richard W. Janney = 519
Semiosis at computer media / Pirkko Raudaskoski = 535
Hypertextuality and multimedia literature / Mikle D. Ledgerwood = 547
Linguistic orientation in computational space / Guido Ipsen = 559
Principles of spatialization in text and hypertext / Karin Wenz = 575
PartⅥ : Time, memory, media, and the semiotics of the museum = 587
The medium is the memory : Ars memoriae in its age of technical reproducibility / Josef Wallmannsberger = 589
The role of memory in the contemporary acceleration of cultural proliferation / Lucio Agra ; Monica Nunes = 603
Listening to the virtual past / Heloisa de Ara$$u'$$jo Duarte Valente = 611
The museum as a political media : A semiological assault / Sandra Lotte Esslinger = 619
The museum as semiotic frame : "Degenerate art" in the thirties and the nineties / Frauke von der Horst = 629
Western heritage and its autres : Cowboys and Indians, facts, and fictions / Diana Drake Wilson = 639
PartⅦ : Aesthetic aspects of the media = 653
Innovation, gainful learning, and habits in the aesthetics of media / RolfKloepfer = 655
Deep structure and design configurations in paintings / Claudio Federico Guerri = 675
Architecture as a mass medium? / Claus Dreyer = 689
Poems on the bus : Some practical aspects of the reception of poetry in the mass media / Tania Leonte Christidis = 703
The form of the media : The intermediality of visual poetry / Friedrich W. Block = 713
Poetic aspects of a multimedia text / Eduardo Pei$$\tilde n$$uela Ca$$\tilde n$$izal = 731
Graphic notation and musical graphics : The nonnotational sign systems in new music and its multimedial character / Nik$$\check s$$a Gligo = 741
Part Ⅷ : Sociosemiotics and today's myths in the media = 755
Divination as a mass media event / Yishai Tobin = 757
Media, death, and democracy / Patrick Imbert = 779
Myth of the Occident and its manifestations in the Chinese media / Ersu Ding = 791
Media coverage of the unreasonable in the land of hyper-reason / Fernando Andacht = 801
The media and logic of concrete action in the "housekeeping" press / Coline Klapisch = 817
The desire of "crises" : An occidental way of existing / Hansruedi Sp$$\ddot o$$rri = 831
Invitation to travel : The window-shop relationship in the communication of fashion / Giulia Ceriani = 841
Nonverbal signs in an intercultural business negotiation / Susanne Niemeier = 851
PartⅨ : Appendix = 867
Index of names = 869
Index of subjects = 885