{"product_id":"readings-writings-semiotic-counter-strategies-9780860917557","title":"Readings \u0026 Writings: Semiotic Counter-Strategies","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Peter Wollen\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Verso\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Verso\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Movements - Modernism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\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.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45409949286551,"sku":"9780860917557","price":1989.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780860917557.webp?v=1767312161","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/readings-writings-semiotic-counter-strategies-9780860917557","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}