O filmowym znaku ze znakiem zapytania
Streszczenie
Culture is not a homogeneous whole; its dynamic character results from the
fact that within its boundaries various „languages" operate, which are an expression
of man’s semiotic activity. His culturegenerating role in the realm of nature
consists of continuous transformation of nature into culture. Thus he generates
various texts (both artistic and non-artislic) which are sequences of relevant signs
arranged in a special manner. The signs have to be arranged according to a defined
set of norms a id regulations, otherwise the given text is likely to lose its consistency.
No text can exist beyond a given semiotic system; occasionally the existence
of certain texts depends on several systems (for instance film texts).
The notion of a text is not identical with the notion of an artistic work. The
relation between the two corresponds to the signal-sing relation. *
At the rnomeiv. it is difficult to explain the semiotic processes in the domain
of film, as well as to define the segmentation of particular codes involved in their
decipherment. Neither is it possible to say what a film sign is. Hence the interrogation
mark in the title, indicative of the „incapacity" of present statements of purely
arbitrary character.