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Roland Barthes discusses the challenges of analyzing film as a language or semiotic system in an interview. He acknowledges that while some have proposed the existence of a "cinematographic language", it is difficult to isolate analog film elements as discrete, non-analogical signs that can be analyzed structurally like language. Barthes suggests experimental approaches could help determine if any filmic elements have been codified or structured in a way that allows semantic analysis, but notes this researc

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