Open AccessMirror and its Semiotic Modifications in Culture
Author(s) -
Ljudmila Borisovna Kljueva
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
vestnik vgik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2713-2471
pISSN - 2074-0832
DOI - 10.17816/vgik4116-32
Subject(s) - semiotics , mirror neuron , dream , phenomenon , mirror image , movie theater , cognitive science , optics , epistemology , psychology , art , philosophy , physics , visual arts , neuroscience
The article pursues the semiotic potential of the “mirror” concept, its numerous modifications and its significance for culture. The article encompasses a wide spectrum of issues, namely: mirror as an instrument of culture, mirror as a cognition means, mirror as a description of the alien structure (the phenomenon of duplicity of the world), mirror and the dream psychology, mirror as a cinema pattern, mirror functions in the film structure etc.