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Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
Peter Wollen
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Description for Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
Paperback. First published in 1969, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema helped transform the discipline of film studies by incorporating the methodology of structuralism and semiotics. Featuring a new foreword by D.N. Rodowick, this new BFI Silver edition explores the way in which a new approach to the cinema can be combined with a new approach to aesthetics. Series: BFI Silver. Num Pages: 288 pages, 60 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 190 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
First published in 1969, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema transformed the emerging discipline of film studies. Remarkably eclectic and informed, Peter Wollen's highly influential and groundbreaking work remains a brilliant and accessible theorisation of film as an art form and as a sign system. The book is divided into three main sections. The first explores the work of Sergei Eisenstein as film-maker, designer and aesthetician. The second, which contains a celebrated comparison of the films of John Ford and Howard Hawks, is an exposition and defence of the auteur theory. The third formulates a semiology of the cinema, ... Read more
First published in 1969, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema transformed the emerging discipline of film studies. Remarkably eclectic and informed, Peter Wollen's highly influential and groundbreaking work remains a brilliant and accessible theorisation of film as an art form and as a sign system. The book is divided into three main sections. The first explores the work of Sergei Eisenstein as film-maker, designer and aesthetician. The second, which contains a celebrated comparison of the films of John Ford and Howard Hawks, is an exposition and defence of the auteur theory. The third formulates a semiology of the cinema, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
BFI Silver
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844573608
SKU
V9781844573608
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About Peter Wollen
PETER WOLLEN taught film at UCLA. He wrote a number of books, including the BFI Film Classic on Singin' in the Rain, published in 1992 and reprinted in a new edition in 2012. He is the co-writer (with Mark Peploe) of Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger (Professione: Reporter) (1974). D. N. RODOWICK is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of ... Read more
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