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31 Semiotic AnalysisIface this assignment explaining semiotics and showing how itcan be applied to television and popular culture to those who knowlittle or nothing about the subject with a certain amount of appre-hension. I m not sure whether semiotics is a subject, a movement, aphilosophy, or a cultlike religion. I do know that there is a large andrapidly expanding literature on the subject and that many of the writ-ings of semioticians are difficult to understand and highly my mission, if not impossible, is quite challenging: Not only am Ito explain the fundamental notions or elements of semiotics, I am also toapply them to television and television productions as well as to popu-lar culture in general.

semiotic analysis spread all over the globe. Important work was done in Prague and Russia early in the 20th century, and semiotics is now well established in France and Italy (where Roland Barthes, Umberto Eco, and many others have done important theoretical as well as applied work). There are also outposts of progress in England, the

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