Jane Austen s Novel Emma in a Journey to Celluloid: A Cine-semiotic Investigation of Close-upsin Douglas McGrath s Emma

Due to its multimodality, film has gained a prestigious place in narrative studies and has magnetically been attracted to linguistic inquiry, unavoidably, generating an aura of academic investigation around film and its industry in the field of Cine-semiotics. The present paper attempts to shed light on the effect of the cinematic technique of Close-up in Emma, a cinematic adaptation of Jane Austen s novel Emma. Moreover, it is sought to approach some objectivity in explaining the effect of shot magnification on the reception of film codes by the viewer.