{"product_id":"readings-and-writings-isbn-9780860917557","title":"Readings and Writings","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cb\u003ePeter Wollen\u003c\/b\u003e was Chair of the Department of Film, Television and New Media at the University of California, Los Angeles. His other books include \u003ci\u003eParis\/Hollywood: Writings on Film\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eParis\/Manhattan: Writings on Art\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300951216357,"sku":"NP9780860917557","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780860917557.jpg?v=1767735453","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/readings-and-writings-isbn-9780860917557","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}