The spatialization of speech in the cinema

Abstract

It is rather unsatisfactory at the current phase of research the way in which the relations between images and words in the film universe are discussed. This is nevertheless a crucial issue regarding the aesthetics of the cinema. Most of the analyses carried out emphasize only the role of the imagens in the genesis and development of the significations. the working hypothesis set forth here has a different proposition, that is, an approach to the sign complex formed by the indissoluble fusion of both expressive resources, which is to be viewed as an specific, original and absolutely new means of communication. This quite new character calls for a detailed and urgent research in which philosophical, semiotic and properly cinematographical approaches are brought together.