Signs and Meaning in the Cinema - Couverture souple

Wollen, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1844573605 ISBN 13 : 9781844573608

Editeur : British Film Institute, 2013

Synopsis

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, invoking cinema as an exemplary test-case for comparative aesthetics and general theories of signification. Wollen's Conclusion argues for an avant-garde cinema, bringing
post-structuralist ideas into his discussion of Godard and other contemporaries.

Published as part of the BFI Silver series, this fifth edition features a new foreword by film theorist David Rodowick and brings together material from the four previous editions, inviting the reader to trace the development of Wollen's thinking, and the unfolding of the discourse of cinema.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Peter Wollen taught film at UCLA, USA. He was the author of several books, including Signs and Meaning in the Cinema (1969, 2012), the BFI Film Classic on 'Singin' in the Rain' (1992, 2012) and was the co-writer of Michelangelo Antonioni's film The Passenger (1974).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: British Film Institute
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1844573605
• ISBN 13: 9781844573608
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 5
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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