Readings and Writings

Semiotic Counter-Strategies

Bibliographic Data

ID4375434
AuthorsPeter Wollen (corresponding author)
Year1983
Volume4
Issue2
Pages380
Publication date1983-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePoetics Today (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1772308
OpenAlexW2093333700
LanguageEN
Citations received21

The films of Hitchcock, Welles and Godard; the aesthetics of photography and the technology of 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. Interwoven with fictional treatments of such themes as memory, dream, sexuality and writing, they compose a remarkable, perhaps unique, volume. These readings and writings are informed by Marxism, semiotics, psychoanalysis, and the history of art itself. Their concern is with signification: with the ways in which meanings are produced in dominant art forms and with the counter-strategies by which these meanings may be questioned or dislodged, in the practice of politically and aesthetically radical alternatives. A concluding retrospect reviews the political, intellectual and aesthetic avant-garde currents of the fifteen years over which these texts were written, outlining some perspectives for oppositional art today

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Dream · Epistemology · Literature · Movie theater · Painting · Politics · Semiotics · Sociology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory

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