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    Two cowboys are depicted on a movie poster for Brokeback Mountain. They are not facing each other and one is in the light while the other is in the dark, denoting conflict. This connotes they have a close but ashamed relationship. Other connotations include them being homosexual workers in the Western genre who experience poverty but also find peace, happiness, and connection in their remote setting. Semiology is the reading of signs, while symbols represent ideas and indexes hold meaning. Denotations are direct meanings and connotations are additional cultural associations.

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    Two cowboys are depicted on a movie poster for Brokeback Mountain. They are not facing each other and one is in the light while the other is in the dark, denoting conflict. This connotes they have a close but ashamed relationship. Other connotations include them being homosexual workers in the Western genre who experience poverty but also find peace, happiness, and connection in their remote setting. Semiology is the reading of signs, while symbols represent ideas and indexes hold meaning. Denotations are direct meanings and connotations are additional cultural associations.

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    Denote &amp Connote

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    Two cowboys are depicted on a movie poster for Brokeback Mountain. They are not facing each other and one is in the light while the other is in the dark, denoting conflict. This connotes they have a close but ashamed relationship. Other connotations include them being homosexual workers in the Western genre who experience poverty but also find peace, happiness, and connection in their remote setting. Semiology is the reading of signs, while symbols represent ideas and indexes hold meaning. Denotations are direct meanings and connotations are additional cultural associations.

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    Denote & Connote

    Semiology
    • Reading signs

    Symbol
    • Representation of ideas

    Indexical
    • Holds a meaning

    Denotations
    • An idea or image’s meaning

    Connotations
    • Additional information that we attach to an idea of an image; this idea is normally
    shared or similar amongst people

    Poster Analysis; Brokeback Mountain


    Denotations
    • Two men
    • Cowboys
    • Not facing each other
    • Mountains
    • Sun on one man; the other’s in the dark
    Connotations
    • Homosexuals
    • Western genre
    • Workers/labourers
    • Poverty
    • Ashamed
    • Closeness
    • Conflict
    • Remote
    • Peaceful
    • Happiness
    • Connection

    In this poster, both of the men shown on the poster to be close together; this connotes
    that these men are very close and good friends, however it is denoted that because eye
    contact is not made that there is conflict between the two character.

    K. Elger
    08/09/2009

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