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Peter Wollen (1938–2019)

Author of Signs and Meaning in the Cinema

27+ Works 545 Members 7 Reviews

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

Signs and Meaning in the Cinema (1969) 201 copies, 2 reviews
Singin' in the Rain (BFI Film Classics) (1992) 68 copies, 1 review
Autopia: Cars and Culture (2002) 21 copies
The Passenger [Screenplay] (1976) 11 copies
Sinemada Gostergeler ve Anlam (1988) 9 copies, 1 review
Friendship's Death [1987 film] (1987) — Director — 3 copies

Associated Works

Visual and Other Pleasures (1989) — Contributor — 183 copies, 2 reviews
Edward Hopper (2004) — Contributor — 114 copies, 1 review
The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion (1997) — Contributor — 69 copies
A New History of German Literature (2005) — Contributor — 55 copies
Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker (2006) — Contributor — 35 copies
The Hieroglyphics of Space: Understanding the City (2001) — Contributor — 20 copies
The Cinematic Apparatus (1985) — Contributor — 15 copies
Sähköiho kone, media, ruumis (1995) — Contributor — 7 copies
Idiolects 14 — Contributor — 1 copy

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9 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

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