Narration as the production of sense using the example of a music video of the song All by Myself by Celine Dion

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https://doi.org/10.18778/1505-9057.58.06

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music video, narration, theory of systems, production of sense, Celine Dion

Abstract

The narration in the music video to Celine Dion’s song All By Myself is a linearly organised construct or composition equipped with features of logicality, which organises specific linguistic or image-based material. It constructs a fiction based on the principles of dramatism. If one assumes that a music video can be analysed as a system which produces meaning, then the production occurs mainly within two dimensions. Firstly, as fiction, and secondly, as narration. The sequential editing adds significance to the entire film. The specific connection points of individual scenes influence the interpretation of the images by viewers – they extract the significance of a portion of the music video. Surely this phenomenon could be defined as a production of sense.

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  • Marek Ostrowski, Professor, University of Lodz, Faculty of Philology, Chair of Journalism and Social Communication

    Marek Ostrowski – professor, Chair of Journalism and Social Communication, University of Lodz. Research focus: literature in its communicational aspect, propaganda of totalitarian systems: Third Reich, PRL, USSR, DDR, history of the Łódź Ghetto, history of the press, masterpieces of journalism. He conducts research in the philosophy of the media, historical politics, and rhetoric in politics. Employee of the Chair of Journalism and Social Communication since 2012.

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Published

2020-09-30

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Vol. 58 No. 3 (2020): The Secret of Meaning. Meaning in Contemporary Media and under Dictatorship

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Ostrowski, Marek. 2020. “Narration As the Production of Sense Using the Example of a Music Video of the Song All by Myself by Celine Dion”. Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica 58 (3): 95-111. https://doi.org/10.18778/1505-9057.58.06.
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