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Readings and Writings: Semiotic Counter-Strategies
by Wollen, Peter
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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 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.
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- Verso Brand
- Jul 17, 1985 Pub Date:
- 086091755X ISBN-10:
- 9780860917557 ISBN-13:
- 228.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 8 in * 0.5 in * 5 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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