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Signs of the Times - Umberto Eco
24 minutes
Color
Recommended audience age range 18-adult
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Availability:
This title is no longer available from the Roland Collection
Additional information
Order number: 1010
In this program Umberto Eco is shown in his country house, in an art gallery and in various locations around the ancient town of Urbino, discussing The Name of the Rose and the ideas behind it. These include the history of semiotics - the branch of linguistics which deals with signs and symbols - and the way in which we understand the world around us by reading the `signs' it gives us, much as Eco's sleuth, the English monk William of Baskerville, reads the clues which help him to solve the series of murders in The Name of the Rose.
Credits -
Presenter:
Umberto Eco
Director:
Anne Diack
Open University/BBC
