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A textual analysis of LA Confidential Module: Textual Analysis Plagiarism is the deliberate submission of another's work as one's own. It may involve unauthorized quotations: i.e. using other people's without quotation marks or proper referencing, a failure to acknowledge (by referencing) that ideas and words are derived from someone else's work or copying of another's work. Declaration: I, Catherine Gee, declare that I have not plagiarized in this assignment. Signature: The Semiotic Construction of Meaning LA Confidential (1997) is a film set in the 1950s, in the suburb of Hollywood and is focused around a particular police station. All these aspects of the film have attached connotations and signifiers. Charles Peirce (as cited in Branston 2003:17) identified three different types of signifiers; indexical, iconic and symbolic, all of which can be found in the film. Curtis Hanson uses the indexical signifier of a flash as a reference to cameras; an example of which can be found in the...

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