Readings and Writings Semiotic Counter-Strategies

Name: Readings and Writings Semiotic Counter-Strategies
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ISBN: 9780860917557

ISBN-10: 086091755X

ISBN-13: 9780860917557

Edition: 1982

Authors: Peter Wollen

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The films of Hitchcock, Welles and Godard; the aesthetics of photography and the technology of cinema; art and revolution in Russia and in Mexico; the avant-gardes in film and in painting—these are among the many topics of Peter Wollen’s essays. Interwoven with fictional treatments of such themes as memory, dream, sexuality and writing, they compose a remarkable, perhaps unique, volume.These “readings and writings” are informed by Marxism, semiotics, psychoanalysis, and the history of art itself. Their concern is with signification: with the ways in which meanings are produced in dominant art forms and with the counter-strategies by which these meanings may be questioned or dislodged, in…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 7/17/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English