Signs and Meaning in the Cinema (BFI Silver) - Expanded 4th ed. [PDF]

Signs and Meaning in the Cinema (BFI Silver) - Expanded 4th ed.
Publisher: British Film Inst

Publication Date: 1998

https://www.amazon.com/Signs-Meanin...1bc7b&pd_rd_wg=q5t17&pd_rd_i=1844573605&psc=1

[above link reflects synopsis of newest 5th ed. - don't see one specific to 4th]





First 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.

The 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 and 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 post-structuralist ideas into his discussion of Godard and other contemporaries.

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