Published: 2025-01-31

The Process of Communicating Values in Film, with Film Treated as an Audiovisual Media Message

Mariola Marczak
Kultura-Media-Teologia
Section: Artykuły i rozprawy
https://doi.org/10.21697/kmt.2023.60.02

Abstract

Audiovisual works, irrespective of the purposes for which they were created, serve the transmission of a certain informational value. This also pertains to audiovisual artefacts, which means that they can and should be treated as cultural objects (on occasion, also works of art) as well as media (tools for conveying information) and messages containing informational content, which were crafted for the purpose of reaching a particular recipient – the addressee of the message (the communicational viewpoint). In the following text I shall construct the theoretical foundations for the analytical examination of the potential to communicate values through films. The original concept shall be built on the combination of communicational and esthetic perspective by applying the communicational theory of Calvin Pryluck’s film. I presume that the informational content of the cultural message, including that of axiological nature emerges from the two-step analysis of the work’s meanings, i.e. from the analysis on the level of forming and constructing meaning.

Keywords:

film, audiovisual communication, audiovisual artefacts, message, media, communicating values

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