Sean Hall

I picked this book up, because unlike other books I've seen on semiotics, it seemed to have be a systematic approach to the subject, dividing up the field into varies types of analysis and those types into things that are looked at. It also offered examples of pictures and texts for the reader to analyze. Unfortunately, as I always find with material on this subject, postmodernism trumped any systematics, so that it was often hard to tell what the picture/text had to do with the topic at hand and the explanations were less than clear. I think in the end while I'm very interested in the analysis of meaningful content in all its forms, I'm basically a structuralist at heart, and don't thing that things can mean anything you want them to.… (meer)