There is a growing interest in the field of semiotics as it is very much related to cinema and its process of making the image-perception relate to some realities of the world horizon.
Right from the theories of Ferdinand de Sassure, Peirce, Greimas, Metz, Deleuze, and Roland have been applied not only to linguistics, but also to the cinema and its narratives. To understand cinema and its deeper narrative structures, one should have the understanding of semiotics.