{"product_id":"readings-and-writings","title":"Readings and Writings","description":"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. Interwoven with fictional treatments of such themes as memory, dream, sexuality and writing, they compose a remarkable, perhaps unique, volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54250091348312,"sku":"9780860917557","price":22.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780860917557.jpg?v=1765672211","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/readings-and-writings","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}