Reloading’ movies into commercial reality
A multimodal analysis of The Matrix trilogy's promotional posters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10738787 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arianna Maiorani (0000-0002-7216-1116, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 2007 |
| Issue | 166 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-21 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Semiotica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/sem.2006.051 |
| OpenAlex | W2043626262 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 2 |
In 1999, the first episode of The Matrix movie trilogy was released, marking the beginning of a new trend in science fiction movies and also in the perception of motion pictures as interactive social and commercial events. This paper will analyze an aspect of The Matrix trilogy promotional campaign (1999–2003) focusing on the interplay between verbal and visual semiotics through a select corpus of posters. The method of analysis will be based both on the grammar of visual design developed by Kress and van Leeuwen, and on the Hallidayan model of analysis. The Matrix movies are set in a present (not future) ‘real’ world that is actually a ‘fiction of science,’ rather than a science fiction vision of a future reality. They are based on the idea of a very fuzzy border between real and virtual reality, which has become a major issue in these last fifteen years due to the advent of the internet and the fast growing number of internet users all over the world. This analysis will show how posters encode different kinds of promotional messages according to the social impact of each movie
Advertising · Art · Linguistics · Literature · Matrix (chemical analysis) · Multimedia · Semiotics · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · The Internet · Trilogy · Visual arts · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Narrative Theory and Analysis
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2024 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |