Description: Further DetailsTitle: Signs and Meaning in the CinemaCondition: NewEAN: 9781844573615ISBN: 9781844573615Edition: 5th ed. 2013Publisher: BFI PublishingFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/23/2013Item Height: 190mmItem Length: 135mmLanguage: EnglishDescription: 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 expositionand 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, bringingpost-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.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBAuthor: NA NAGenre: Films & TVBook Series: BFI SilverRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
Title: Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
EAN: 9781844573615
ISBN: 9781844573615
Edition: 5th ed. 2013
Release Date: 04/23/2013
Release Year: 2013
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Films & TV
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Subject: Film / General, Film / Guides & Reviews, Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts), Film / History & Criticism, Film & Video
Publication Year: 2013
Item Height: 4.1 in
Features: New Edition
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20.3 Oz
Subject Area: Art, Performing Arts
Author: Peter Wollen
Item Length: 7.8 in
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Bfi Silver Ser.
Format: Hardcover
