Readings and Writings: Semiotic Counter-Strategies - Paperback

$28.75

Readings and Writings: Semiotic Counter-Strategies - Paperback

Name: Readings and Writings: Semiotic Counter-Strategies - Paperback
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SKU: 9780860917557
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by Peter Wollen

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Book Overview

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.

ISBN	9780860917557
Author	Peter Wollen
Publisher	Verso
Genre	Arts and History
Format	Paperback
Published	July 1985
Language	ENG- English
Pages	228
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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