Peter Wollen (1938–2019)
Author of Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
About the Author
Peter Wollen taught film at UCLA. He wrote a number of books, including the BFI Film Classic on Singin' in the Rain, published in 1992 and reprinted in a new edition in 2012. He is the co-writer (with Mark Peploe) of Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger (Professione: Reporter) (1974). D. N. show more Rodowick is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, and Director, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, at Harvard University. show less
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Works by Peter Wollen
On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1957-1972 (Inst of Contemporary Art, Boston) (1989) 51 copies
Signos e Significação no Cinema 2 copies
Cantando na chuva 1 copy
نشانهها و معنا در سینما 1 copy
Perhaps . . . 1 copy
Komar & Melamid (The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 10 Aug-21 Sep 1985 : Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 6 Oct-1 Dec 1985 (1985) 1 copy
Samuel Fuller 1 copy
The Two Avant-Gardes 1 copy
"An Alphabet of Cinema" 1 copy
Associated Works
Idiolects 14 — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1938-06-29
- Date of death
- 2019-12-17
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Oxford (Christ Church|English literature|1959)
- Occupations
- film-maker
theorist
curator - Organizations
- University of California, Los Angeles
New Left Review - Relationships
- Mulvey, Laura (wife)
- Nationality
- England
UK - Birthplace
- Woodford, Essex, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Paris, France
London, England, UK - Place of death
- West Sussex, England, UK
- Associated Place (for map)
- England, UK
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Reviews
Dividido em três capítulos em que o primeiro trata da trajetória de Eisenstein e o segundo da política dos autores aplicada pelos franceses na Hollywood clássica com ênfase em Ford e Hawks, mas Wollen só mostra a que veio mesmo no capítulo final sobre a semiologia no cinema, esta que estaria melhor revisada se nos moldes do signo tripartido de Peirce do que no de Saussure como o fazem Metz e Barthes. O livro encerra com uma conclusão que não constou na primeira edição do livro, show more mas que reitera Godard como aquele que atingiu todas as possibilidades do cinema. show less
Sinema kuramı ve eleştirisinin temel yapıtlarından biri olan Sinemada Göstergeler ve Anlam, sinema dilini kavramada yeni ve verimli yönlere çeker okurunu - film seyircisini salt seyirci olmaktan çıkıp filmi okumaya davet eder. Peter Wollen, özellikle Eisenstein, Hawks, Frod ve Godard'ın sinemasına uyarlanmasının ilk örneğini vermiştir.
Totally biased! Love this movie and love the book. Short little bio and interesting dissection on the styles.
"Without doubt, it is the best study of cinema published in English for years." ―Cinema
"... a major achievement... drawing on the results of aesthetic inquiry―from Shaftesbury and Lessing to Jakobson and the formalists―in order to relate the cinema to wider areas of linguistic theory and theory of art." ―Times Literary Supplement
"... a major achievement... drawing on the results of aesthetic inquiry―from Shaftesbury and Lessing to Jakobson and the formalists―in order to relate the cinema to wider areas of linguistic theory and theory of art." ―Times Literary Supplement
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- Works
- 27
- Also by
- 10
- Members
- 545
- Popularity
- #45,747
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 7
- ISBNs
- 49
- Languages
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