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Abstract
This article looks at the semiotics of speech in a Hollywood film. Sound — and especially speech — plays a crucial role in the cinematic experience, but a minimal role in film theory and criticism. Filmic speech generally drives plot and characterization, while visual techniques are developed to construct and comment upon a film’s thematic statements. An interpretive analysis of the 1999 film SnowFalling on Cedars however, demonstrates that director Scott Hicks reverses this common relationship between the visual and the aural, deploying speech to construct and comment upon the film’s main theme of memory.
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Published Online: 2008-10-27
Published in Print: 2005-06-20
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
