Tomaselli, Keyan Gray.2013-04-222013-04-2219851985Tomaselli, K.G. 1985. Cybernetics, semiotics and meaning in the cinema. Communicare 4(1) pp. 48-62.0259-0069http://hdl.handle.net/10413/8788This paper builds on Gene Youngblood's use of cybernetic theory in film analysis. It combines the cybernetic method with Peircian-derived semiotics in an attempt to derive a meta-theory of social process and film textual structure. An attempt is made to resolve the more deterministic elements of Youngblood's theory, developing a more probabilistic approach. The paper ends with some conjecture on how the cyber-semiotic theory developed can be combined with Lacanian psychoanalysis and Marxist approaches developed by the scholars contributing to the British journal Screen.enCybernetics.Motion pictures--Theory, etc.Film criticism.Semiotics.Film analysis.Cybernetic theory.Peer reviewed journal article