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Semiotics of the \"Stalker\" by A. Tarkovsky

Student: Shatkovskii Artyom

Supervisor: Maria Shteinman

Faculty: Faculty of Creative Industries

Educational Programme: Media Communications (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2019

In this paper, the author aims to reveal the semiotics of the film "Stalker" by Andrei Tarkovsky. The methods are the following: the semiotic analysis of the cinematic discourse (media text) based upon Yuri Lotman's work "Semiotics of cinema and problems of film aesthetics", Vladimir Propp's comparative typological method and his work "Morphology of a fairy tale" and Oleg Aronson's communicative image in his "Communicative image". Cinema. Literature. Philosophy.» The result of this study will be a detailed semiotic and comparative typological analysis of Tarkovsky's film "Stalker" as a complete cinematic discourse (media text). Structurally, the work will consist of an introduction, the definition of "semiotics", the analysis of the story of the Strugatsky brothers`the "Roadside Picnic" and different versions of the script of the film "Stalker", the definition of "cinematic discourse", analysis of symbolism in the "Stalker", the visual series, key images and symbols, ideological levels, leitmotifs, conclusion and references.

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