Suggested Reading:
Film and Television
- Allen, Robert D. (Ed.) (1993)
Channels of Discourse, Reassembled. London: Routledge
- Bignell, Jonathan (2002)
Media Semiotics: An Introduction. Manchester: Manchester University Press (Chapter 2) [caution - labels photographic media as primarily iconic rather than primarily indexical]
- Buckland, Warren (Ed) (1995)
The Film Spectator: From Sign to Mind. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
- Buckland, Warren (2000)
The Cognitive Semiotics of Film. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Chandler, Daniel (2007)
Semiotics: The Basics (2nd Edn.). London: Routledge
- Chandler, Daniel & Merris Griffiths (2000)
'Gender-Differentiated Production Features in Toy Commercials',
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 44(3): 503-20
- Chandler, Daniel and Rod Munday (2011)
Dictionary of Media and Communication. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- de Lauretis, Teresa (1984)
Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema. London: Macmillan
- Iampolski, Mikhail (1998)
The Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film (trans. Harsha Ram). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
- Fairservice, Don (2001)
Film Editing: History, Theory, Practice. Manchester: Manchester University Press (not explicitly semiotic but very useful)
- Fiske, John (1987)
Television Culture. London: Routledge
- Fiske, John & John Hartley (1978)
Reading Television. London: Methuen
- Hartley, John (1982)
Understanding News. London: Routledge
- Lapsley, Robert & Michael Westlake (1988)
Film Theory: An Introduction. Manchester: Manchester University Press
- Lotman, Jurij (1976)
Semiotics of Cinema (Trans. Mark Suino). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan
- Metz, Christian (1974)
Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Metz, Christian (1982)
The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
- Mitry, Jean (2000)
Semiotics and the Analysis of Film (trans. Christopher King). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
- Nichols, Bill (1981)
Ideology and the Image. Bloomington, IN:
Indiana University Press (Chapters 1 & 2)
- Peters, Jan M (1981)
Pictorial Signs and the Language of Film. Amsterdam: Rodopi
- SEFT (Ed) (nd)
Cinema and Semiotics: Screen Reader 2. London: Society for Education in Film & Television
- Selby, Keith & Ron Cowdery (1995)
How to Study Television. London: Macmillan
- Stam, Robert (1992)
Reflexivity in Film and Literature. New York: Columbia University
Press
- Thompson, Roy (1993)
Grammar of the Edit. Oxford: Focal Press (not explicitly semiotic but very useful)
Note: Treat with extreme caution sources labelled with this symbol!
