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3 days ago · Two events were instrumental in raising interest in her life and art for the general public outside Mexico. The first was a joint retrospective of her paintings and Tina Modotti's photographs at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, which was curated and organized by Peter Wollen and Laura Mulvey.
Jul 1, 2024 · We only have to recall the exchange between Peter Wollen and T.J. Clark in Screen to understand how marginal the claim for realism mounted by the latter appeared at that time. [book-strip index="1"] It might be thought that Jameson’s influential book The Political Unconscious: Narrative as Socially Symbolic Act follows this line of ...
Jun 17, 2024 · The booklet contains two texts: Mulvey’s evening lecture at the Cabaret Voltaire, revisiting hers and Peter Wollen’s exhibition and film on Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti, and Wollen’s 2003 essay on the phenomenon of “Fridamania.”.
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Jul 4, 2024 · The video centers on a discussion of Gilbert Harman's essay on semiotics and cinema, focusing on the approaches of Christian Metz and Peter Wollen. It delves into how Metz and Wollen use semiology to analyze film, emphasizing Metz's concept of film language and the importance of understanding connotation and denotation in films.
Jun 20, 2024 · Auteur theory suggests that Burton's work must be a decryptment of meaning of the film (Wollen, 104). Burton's work meets the criteria in that the fantasy element is used to forefront the social message.
Jul 6, 2024 · First published in 1969, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema transformed the emerging discipline of film studies. Remarkably eclectic and informed, Peter Wollen's higly influential and groundbreaking work remains a brilliant and accessible theorization of film as an art form and as a sign system.
Jun 19, 2024 · 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.
