EXPRESSIVE SEMIOTIC MESSAGE IN BODY LANGUAGE

Abstract

Semiotics played a major role in all literary and artistic works and was distinguished greatly in cinema that relies on the language of expression. Therefore, semiotics and expression mixed even with the language of the body, whose role increased until every movement and action of the body movements and actions became an added value to the structure of the cinematic film. Hence the title of the research, which contained four chapters. The first chapter contained the research problem, which was summarized in the following question: How was semiotics employed in cinema, and how was this expressively embodied in body language? Then the importance of the research emphasized the necessity of a study that combines these variables (semiotic, expressive, and the body in cinema). The research aimed to reveal how Siemicism employs body language in the film. The second chapter contained three topics, the first is semiotics, its origins, its philosophers, its expressive properties, and its differences from semiology, then the researcher touched on the most important advantages of its theorists from De Saussure and Peirce and their divisions depending on the signifier and the signified. As for the second topic, the discussion focused on the origins of body language in the fictional film, then symbolism, its connotations, and its expressive engagements in body language, depending on the motor performance and its connection to all the elements of the image that belong to the specificity of the subject and types of the film. Also, how were the connection and dependence of semiotics, expression, and cinematic techniques and the result of their association with each other? The third topic, dealt with the uses of expression in cinema between the significance and the semiotics of the body, how to employ all of this expressively, and how it worked with the philosophers of expressionism in Germany and France. The researcher came out with a set of indicators that were adopted as a research tool after presenting them to a group of experts. The third chapter included the analysis of the selected sample, represented by the movie (The Hunchback of Notre Dame). The fourth chapter included the results, conclusions, recommendations and proposals, and a list of the most important sources and references adopted by the researcher.