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020 _a9781838710408
020 _z183871040X
020 _z9781838718206 (pdf ebook)
020 _z9781844573608 (paperback)
020 _z9781844573615 (hardback)
041 _aeng
082 _a791.43/01
_223
100 _aWollen, Peter,
_eauthor.
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245 _aSigns and meaning in the cinema /
_cPeter Wollen ; with a foreword by D. N. Rodowick.
250 _aFifth Edition.
260 _aLondon :
_bBloomsbury Publishing,
_c2019.
300 _a1 online resource (xvi, 272 pages) :
_billustrations
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"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"--Bloomsbury Screen Studies.
600 1 0 _aEisenstein, Sergei,
_d1898-1948
_xCriticism and interpretation.
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650 _aMotion pictures
_xAesthetics.
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650 _aMotion pictures
_xHistory.
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650 _aAuteur theory (Motion pictures)
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650 _aMotion pictures
_xSemiotics.
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700 1 _aRodowick, David Norman,
_ewriter of supplementary textual content.
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856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.5040/9781838710408?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
942 _cEBK
999 _c13370
_d13370