New Left Review I/55, May-June 1969
Sam Rohdie
Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
The existential value of the work of art, as a declaration about being, cannot be extracted from the adherent signals alone (its symbolism), nor from the self-signals alone (the medium). The self-signals taken alone prove only existence; adherent signals taken in isolation prove only the presence of meaning . . .
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