List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Theory
1. Interaction as Communication
2. Types of Communication
3. Information and Levels of Meaning
4. Between Indexicality and Iconicity
5. The (Mostly) Symbolic Signs of Verbal Language
Part II: Applications
6. Oscar Wilde and Dynamism of Character
7. The Esthetics of Light in Early Cinema
8. Photography and the Limitations of Indexicality in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blowup (1966)
9. The Iconicity of the Pictorial Frame
10. The Iconic Magic of Cinema in Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index