Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical issues -- Chapter 1 Approaches to the semiotics of images: The object of study -- Chapter 2 The semiotics of the static image: The structuralist tradition -- Chapter 3 The semiotics of the dynamic image -- Chapter 4 The iconic and the plastic dimensions -- Chapter 5 The plastic signifier -- Chapter 6 Visual semiotics: From structuralism to the material turn of big visual data -- Part II: Interpreting the static image -- Chapter 7 Isotopies in painting -- Chapter 8 Serial analysis of the pictorial work: Series, networks, rhizomes, interstitial space-times -- Chapter 9 The Greimasian and post-Greimasian semiotics of photography -- Part III: Interpreting the dynamic image -- Chapter 10 Light, shadows and revolution: Cinema's expression substance and the question of the avant-garde -- Chapter 11 How the story is told: Arrival -- Chapter 12 Ingmar Bergman's The seventh seal: What kind of play is life? -- Chapter 13 Semiotic analysis of animation films: A case study of Ratatouille -- Chapter 14 Semiotic analysis of digital games -- Chapter 15 A semiotics-based methodology for script creation: Linear and interactive narratives -- References -- About the authors -- Index