@article{2016,title={SEMIOTICS AND CINEMA OR SEMIOTICS OF CINEMA},abstractNode={The cinema is one of the strongest means of expression. The cinematic language is distinctive, in terms of its visual expressions. So, what kind of language is this? Can it be compared to the verbal languages? How can one use Linguistics, or, more precisely, Semiotic approaches, to make sense of the cinematic language? These questions have drew the attention of scholars since the beginning of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Among them, substantial studies have been done by, for instance, Christian Metz, Roland Barthes, Peter Wollen, and Rudolf Arnheim. In their writings, it is suggested that cinematic visuality attracts semioticians. Moreover, cinematic visuality, as a form of visual languages, comes to show the potential of being analysed linguistically. And yet, it seems that the link between the visual and the verbal languages is not a stable one. When it comes to the understanding of the cinematic language and its expression, to what extent it can be called as the ‘semiotic approach’? This research aims to answer this question, among others: semiotics can be applied in both verbal and visual languages, because these two languages have some fundamental similarities?},author={Mehmet ÇİÇEK},year={2016},journal={Kesit Akademi}}