This course deals in an analytic way with the structure and functioning of audiovisual objects considered as rhetorical constructs subjected to a specific grammar, from the emergence of the nineteenth century technologies (photography and cinema) to the digital environment. In short, students learn how to ¿read¿ images. Program 1. Introduction to the analysis of the audiovisual text. 2. Image, reality and meaning. 3. What is an audiovisual object? 4. How to read an audiovisual text. Description and interpretation. 5. The stages of the analysis. Methodological issues. 6. The matter of the audiovisual expression. 7. Signs and technological codes 8. Visual codes, graphic codes and sound codes. 9. Syntactic codes: the notion of editing. 10. Framing 11. Narrative mise-en-scène 12. Non-narrative mise-en-scène 13. Meaning effects and spectatorial construction 14. Audiovisual analysis and gender perspective.