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Readings and writings : semiotic counter-strategies / Peter Wollen.
- Title
- Readings and writings : semiotic counter-strategies / Peter Wollen.
- Author
- Wollen, Peter
- Publication
- London : NLB, c1982.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PN1995 .W635 1982 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- ix, 228 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "The films of Hitchcock, Welles and Goddard; the aesthetics of photography and the technology of the 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." -- Back cover.
- Subject
- Motion picture plays > History and criticism
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- "Essays ... written during the period from 1968 to 1982"--Pref.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Cinema and semiology ; North by Northwest : a morphological analysis ; Hybrid plots in Psycho ; The hermeneutic code ; Citizen Kane -- 2. Art in revolution ; Godard and counter cinema : Vent d'Est ; The two avant-gardes ; Mexico/women/art -- 3. The real projective plane ; Fridenship's death ; Monuments of the future ; The mystery of Landau -- 4. Cinema and technology ; Photography and aesthetics ; "Ontology" and "Materialism" in film ; Semiotic counter-strategies : retrospect 1982
- ISBN
- 0860910555
- LCCN
- ^^^82211479^
- OCLC
- 10230127
- SCSB-11572097
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library