1. Cinema and semiology ; North by Northwest : a morphological analysis ; Hybrid plots in Psycho ; The hermeneutic code ; Citizen Kane -- 2. Art in revolution ; Godard and counter cinema : Vent d'Est ; The two avant-gardes ; Mexico/women/art -- 3. The real projective plane ; Fridenship's death ; Monuments of the future ; The mystery of Landau -- 4. Cinema and technology ; Photography and aesthetics ; "Ontology" and "Materialism" in film ; Semiotic counter-strategies : retrospect 1982
Summary
"The films of Hitchcock, Welles and Goddard; the aesthetics of photography and the technology of the 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." -- Back cover
Analysis
Arts Aesthetics
Notes
"Essays ... written during the period from 1968 to 1982"--Preface
