Semiology of Motion Picture to Approach the TV Work "Selfie"

If poetry collections, novels, and short stories are literary works that are written, some TV works are literary works that are to be seen and heard, and that are originally written literary works. Therefore, a literary seen work has a linguistic feature which we find in literary written texts, such as novels, and it also has non-linguistic feature. Semiology of motion picture provides us with devices to approach titles of TV Works through the title’s linguistic structure, meaning, function, and context. The study approaches the title of the TV series Selfie, which is a Saudi TV series and aired in Ramadan 2015/1436, employing semiology of motion picture. Even though semiology of motion picture is mature, no one, as far as we know, has applied it. Hence, the study expands scholars’ horizon to examine literary seen works.

Keywords: Semiology of Motion Picture, TV work.