Readings and Writings - Semiotic Counter-Strategies (Paperback)

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 the practice of politically and aesthetically radical alternatives. A concluding retrospect reviews the political, intellectual and aesthetic avant-garde currents of the fifteen years over which these texts were written, outlining some perspectives for oppositional art today.

General

Imprint:	Verso Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 1985
First published:	February 1997
Authors:	Peter Wollen
Dimensions:	203 x 135 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-86091-755-7
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-86091-755-X
Barcode:	9780860917557

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