Semiotics and Title Sequences

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This book emerged from fragmentary work done over several years concerned with the relationship between meaning and form in title sequence designs (mostly) produced for feature films and television programs in the United States. Some of the individual close readings that appear in this book have been published as self-contained considerations of specific title designs, while for many others, this is their first time appearing publicly. The foundations of this analysis lie with the history of title designs in film, television, and video games developed in my monograph The History of Motion Graphics: From Avant-Garde to Industry in the United States. Proposing a general semiotic theory for title sequences and other arrangements of text and image ...