This study investigates affective meanings expressed in facial expressions and bodily gestures from a semiotic perspective. Particularly, the study focuses on disentangling relations of affective meanings and exploring the meaning potential of facial expressions and bodily gestures. Based on the analysis of over three hundred screenshots from two films (one animation and one live-action film), this study proposes a system of visual affect, as well as a system of visual resources involved in the expression of visual affect. The system of visual affect makes a further step in the investigation of affective meanings afforded by facial expressions and bodily gestures, and can provide methodological insights into the examination of affective meanings expressed visually. The system of visual resources provides a more meaning-motivated framework for systematic tracking of the visual resources, which may be applied to the analysis of other visual media apart from films.

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电影中的视觉影响：一种符号学方法

这项研究从符号学的角度研究了面部表情和身体手势中表达的情感含义。特别地，该研究着重于解开情感意义的关系，并探索面部表情和身体姿势的意义潜力。在对两部电影（一部动画和一部真人电影）的三百多张截图进行分析的基础上，本研究提出了一种视觉效果系统，以及涉及视觉效果表达的视觉资源系统。视觉情感系统在研究由面部表情和身体手势提供的情感含义方面又迈进了一步，并且可以为检查视觉表达的情感含义提供方法上的见识。