Irrespective of their culture, people are storytellers who reflect on and shape their lives through narratives. Fludernik (2009) and Bal (2017) agree that a narrative is a text which conveys a subject and a possible world to an addressee who can be a reader, a viewer, or a listener. They add that a narrative can take various forms: text, image, sound, or a combination of some or all of them. A movie poster is a possible narrative world because it tells the movie’s story through an extensive use of visuals. As a narrative form, a movie poster shares some features of narratives such as characterization, setting, and plot. These elements can be linguistically realized via a plethora of linguistic tools as those recurrent in Kress and van Leeuwen’s (2006) visual semiotics model. The present paper examines a few posters for Oscar-winning movies in order to expose the visual linguistic representation of the elements constituting a narrative.
Sherif, Lubna. (2020). Posters of Oscar-winning Movies as Visual Narratives: A Visual Semiotic Study. مجلة کلية الأداب - جامعة حلوان, 51(2), 41-63. doi: 10.21608/kgef.2020.311600
MLA
Lubna Sherif. "Posters of Oscar-winning Movies as Visual Narratives: A Visual Semiotic Study". مجلة کلية الأداب - جامعة حلوان, 51, 2, 2020, 41-63. doi: 10.21608/kgef.2020.311600
HARVARD
Sherif, Lubna. (2020). 'Posters of Oscar-winning Movies as Visual Narratives: A Visual Semiotic Study', مجلة کلية الأداب - جامعة حلوان, 51(2), pp. 41-63. doi: 10.21608/kgef.2020.311600
VANCOUVER
Sherif, Lubna. Posters of Oscar-winning Movies as Visual Narratives: A Visual Semiotic Study. مجلة کلية الأداب - جامعة حلوان, 2020; 51(2): 41-63. doi: 10.21608/kgef.2020.311600
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