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This chapter discusses the theory surrounding the semiotic resource of ‘camera angles’ and examines the consequences of bringing theoretical categories into contact with a diverse body of actually broadcast images. I start with an outline of the accepted — if we understand repeated appearance in academic work as a mark of acceptance — theoretical understandings of camera angles. Real-world camera positioning can be descriptively complex, and it is conventional to see camera angles as resolvable along two perpendicular axes, the horizontal and vertical planes dealt with in this study.
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Koga-Browes, S. (2015). Camera Angles in Television News. In: Piazza, R., Haarman, L., Caborn, A. (eds) Values and Choices in Television Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137478474_3
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