مجلة الحكمة للدراسات الفلسفية
Volume 14, Numéro 3, Pages 970-989
2026-10-01
The Semiotics Of Dramatic Imagery And Representations Of Marginalized Childhood In Algerian Television Films: A Reading Of The Film “broken Wings”
Authors : Sebili Karima .
Abstract
This article analyzes the semiotic structure of the Algerian social-drama television film Broken Wings, treating it as an applied case through which to examine representations of childhood. It interrogates meaning-making across visual, aural, and technical components of the dramatic text, drawing on Roland Barthes’s denotation/connotation framework and on technical découpage to track shots, camera movements, and angles and to interpret their semiotic functions. The analysis shows that the film’s opposing spatial formations construct an image that exceeds straightforward narration, operating instead as a symbolic device for articulating suffering, vulnerability, and the desire for care. Broken Wings offers a critical reading of marginalized childhood as the product of an intersecting system of social precarity and forced labor, homelessness and poverty, injustice, bullying and physical abuse, and the absence of protection and emotional containment in Algerian television drama.
Keywords
television drama ; Algerian television film ; Broken Wings
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