Black Cat

Vesa Matteo Piludu

University of Helsinki

Barthes: tripartite meaning process

Object or signifier could signify several meanings

In a certain contest is connected to a certain concept or significans

The signifier with a clear meaning become a sign in a certain historical and cultural background

Black cat and witch

Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923): Chat au Clair de Lune

Black CatArt Print by Shunso Hishida

Tournee du Chat Noir by Theophile Steinlen (1898)

Chat Noir by Theophile Steinlen

Many of the posters were produced, to advertise the local “cabaret” owned by Aristide Bruant, created in 1881 as a venue for performers and a nightclub for artists

elegant and luxurious body

This is a perfect balance of mass advertisement (in the right language) and art

Halloween poster

Black cat in advetizing

Catwoman (Batman)

Michelle Pfeiffer - Catwoman in Batman Returns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H75_xFqk774

Catwoman in Old Batman telefilm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK72XCQVOWg&feature=related

The Black Cat – by Poe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiVuIICPBgg&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEP32uFWPM8&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k1-WncQ4Yg&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k1-WncQ4Yg&feature=related

The Black CatInspired on Edgar Allan Poe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7v0vooX1Gc&feature=related

Italian trash film

The Black Cat (1981) trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mjq1Ni4I9M&feature=related