{"product_id":"readings-and-writings-semiotic-counter-strategies-9780860917557","title":"Readings and Writings: Semiotic Counter-Strategies","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese \"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/17\/1985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780860917557\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Peter Wollen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52034315321525,"sku":"9780860917557","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_169422f6-94a0-4199-abe2-75bc9da249c7.jpg?v=1763593585","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/readings-and-writings-semiotic-counter-strategies-9780860917557","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}