{"product_id":"peter-wollen-signs-and-meaning-in-the-cinema","title":"Peter Wollen: Signs and Meaning in the Cinema","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBritish Film Institute, 2013, softcover, 288 pages, 13.5 x 18.7 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1969, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema transformed the emerging discipline of film studies. Remarkably eclectic and informed, Peter Wollen's highly influential and groundbreaking work remains a brilliant and accessible theorisation of film as an art form and as a sign system.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book is divided into three main sections. The first explores the work of Sergei Eisenstein as film-maker, designer and aesthetician. The second, which contains a celebrated comparison of the films of John Ford and Howard Hawks, is an exposition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand defence of the auteur theory. The third formulates a semiology of the cinema, invoking cinema as an exemplary test-case for comparative aesthetics and general theories of signification. Wollen's Conclusion argues for an avant-garde cinema, bringing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003epost-structuralist ideas into his discussion of Godard and other contemporaries.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58606892941696,"sku":null,"price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/71l7gYize_L._SY522__1.jpg?v=1785847353","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/peter-wollen-signs-and-meaning-in-the-cinema","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}