{"id":11,"date":"2007-02-09T14:56:28","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T19:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/2007\/02\/09\/semantics-and-millers-crossing\/"},"modified":"2007-02-09T14:56:28","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T19:56:28","slug":"semantics-and-millers-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/2007\/02\/09\/semantics-and-millers-crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"Semantics and Miller&#8217;s Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought our discussion was especially thought provoking because we talked about the ways in which films were a constructed world.\u00c2\u00a0 I had never thought of movies of having anything in common with the written word.\u00c2\u00a0 However, when Dr. Campbell introduced the concepts of semantic and syntactic relationships, something clicked.\u00c2\u00a0 The semantic relationships are easier for me to grasp than the syntactic ones.\u00c2\u00a0 Though, I have to be careful not to look for meaning that doesn&#8217;t exist.\u00c2\u00a0 Semantics are interesting because they provide\u00c2\u00a0a vehicle within which to explore the visual\u00c2\u00a0aspect of movie-watching.\u00c2\u00a0 What I&#8217;ve seen of &#8220;Miller&#8217;s Crossing&#8221; so far is very dark and\u00c2\u00a0gloomy.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The scenes are dimly lit, the characters are dressed in dark colors and the whole tone is just generally\u00c2\u00a0morose.\u00c2\u00a0 All of this gloom and doom has to have a meaning, but what is it?\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t\u00c2\u00a0know.\u00c2\u00a0 What I do know is that I feel an overwhelming sense of chilling fear.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s not the thrilling and chilling kind of fear that goes on in a &#8220;scary&#8221; movie.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0a kind of primal fear.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s very disturbing.\u00c2\u00a0 In any event, I&#8217;m\u00c2\u00a0intrigued thus far and can&#8217;t wait to see how the movie pans out.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought our discussion was especially thought provoking because we talked about the ways in which films were a constructed world.\u00c2\u00a0 I had never thought of movies of having anything in common with the written word.\u00c2\u00a0 However, when Dr. Campbell introduced the concepts of semantic and syntactic relationships, something clicked.\u00c2\u00a0 The semantic relationships are easier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}