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Item Details
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READINGS AND WRITINGS
SEMIOTIC COUNTERSTRATEGIES |
| By: |
Peter Wollen |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£17.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
086091755X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780860917557 |
| Publisher: |
VERSO BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
1 November, 1982 |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Verso Books |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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