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Arrows of desire : new directions in British film and video : an international tour / selected by Peter Wollen ; [notes by Michael O'Pray] London: ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1993?].
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Between imagination and reality : The ICA Biennial of Independent Film and Video / Selector: Tilda Swinton. Essays: Moira Sweeney, Peter Wollen London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1990.
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The field of language in film in October (Summer 1981) iss.17 p.53-60
Author: Wollen, Peter PhysDes: ArticleSubject: SYMBOLIC ORDER ; PATRIARCHAL DISCOURSE ; SEMIOTICS ; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; AMY! (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1980) ; PENTHESILEA (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1974) ; RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1977) Summary: A lengthy essay/article by Peter Wollen on semiotics and its relationship to a dominant patriarchal symbolic order within film. He explores the problematic of filmmakers attempting to counter patriarchal discourse. Wollen notes that one cinematic path is to avoid verbal language altogether and instead focus on icons, indices, images, and traces. However, Wollen rejects this option as ineffective as he places both verbal and visual language as crucial to the composition of films, in terms of both signifier and signified. Wollen also comments that in his counter-language projects with Laura Mulvey ("Amy!", "Penthesilea", and "Riddles of the Sphinx"), films where women's voices predominate in various modes, a fractured body of language has resulted
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Howard Hawks, American artist / edited by Jim Hillier and Peter Wollen London: BFI Publishing, 1996.
Call No: 81HAW HOWAuthor: Hillier, Jim ; Wollen, Peter, 1938 CorpAuthor: British Film InstitutePlace: LondonPublisher: BFI PublishingPubDate: 1996PhysDes: 252 p. : ports. ; 24 cmSubject: HAWKS, HOWARD Notes: Includes index; Filmography: p. 231-240; Bibliography: p. 241-246ISBN: 0851705928 (cased); 0851705928; 0851705936 (pbk)LON: 13041702
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Paris Hollywood : writings on film / Peter Wollen London ; New York: Verso, 2002.
Call No: 67(04) WOLAuthor: Wollen, Peter Source: UK/USPlace: London ; New YorkPublisher: VersoPubDate: 2002PhysDes: vi, 314 p. ; 21 cmSubject: ARCHITECTURE IN FILMS ; DIRECTORS ; FILM ; THEORY ; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY ; MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN FILM HISTORY ; BURROUGHS, WILLIAM ; EGGELING, VIKING ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; ROUCH, JEAN ; BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982) ; BLADE RUNNER: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT (US, Ridley Scott, 1982) ; FREUD (US, John Huston, 1962) ; RULES OF THE GAME, THE (FR, Jean Renoir, 1939) ; REGLE DU JEU, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1939) Summary: "In this new collection of essays on the cinema, all written over the last ten years, Peter Wollen explores an extraordinarily wide range of topics, stretching from an analysis of time in film and video art to a study of Riff-Raff Realism in British film. Provocative essays discuss the work both of established auteur directors such as Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock as well as the filmmaking careers of such experimental moviemakers as William Burroughs and Viking Eggeling, the dadaist pioneer of abstract film. The collection also includes fascinating studies of a number of film classics, such as John Huston's Freud, Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.".
"Paris Hollywood suggests new approaches to thinking about film and many unexpected connections between film studies and the history of such strangely related activities as espionage, psychoanalysis, dance, architecture, anthropology, Stalinism, love of speed and digital technology. Wollen's book is based on the premise that there are no fixed ways of writing about the cinema but, rather, a plethora of paths leading in very different directions, each contributing to a new understanding of the 20th century's major art form."--BOOK JACKETNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Includes filmographyISBN: 1859843913Contents: -- 1: an alphabet of Cinema -- Part 1: directors and filmmakers -- 2: guerilla conditions: the cinema of William Seward Burroughs -- 3: viking eggeling -- 4: who the hell is Howard Hawks? -- 5: hitch: a tale of two cities (London and Los Angeles) -- 6: JLG -- 7: Jean Rouch -- part 2: films and movements -- 8: Freud as adventurer -- 9: Blade Runner -- 10: spies ansd spivs: an anglo-austrian engagement -- 11: rules of the game -- 12: the last new wave -- 13: riff-raff realism -- 14: architecture and film: places and non-places -- 15: the canon -- 16: time in film and video art -- 17: mismatches (& Acousmetres) -- 18 back to the future -- 19: speed and the cinema -- notes -- film-makers/director index -- filmography -- general index --
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Raiding the icebox : reflections on twentieth-century culture / Peter Wollen London: Verso, 1993.
Call No: 60 WOLAuthor: Wollen, Peter, 1938 Place: LondonPublisher: VersoPubDate: 1993PhysDes: viii, 222 p. ; 24 cmNotes: Includes index; Includes bibliographical referencesISBN: 086091366X; 0860915786 (pbk) : No priceLON: bnb86091366; 9088117
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Readings and writings : semiotic counter-strategies / Peter Wollen London: NLB, 1982.
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Signs and meaning in the cinema / Peter Wollen London: Secker and Warburg in association with the British Film Institute, 1972.
Call No: 623.3 WOLAuthor: Wollen, Peter, 1938 Edition: 3rd. ed., rev. and enlPlace: LondonPublisher: Secker and Warburg in association with the British Film InstitutePubDate: 1972PhysDes: 176 p. : ill. ; 20 cmSeries: Cinema one ; 9Subject: AUTEUR THEORY ; SEMIOLOGY Notes: Bibliography: p.174-175ISBN: 0436470022; 0436480028 (pbk)LON: cvx00750640; 2599034
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Signs and meaning in the cinema : Wollen, Peter. / Peter Wollen London: Secker and Warburg in association with the British Film Institute, 1972.
Author: Wollen, Peter Edition: 3rd. ed., rev. and enl.Place: LondonPublisher: Secker and Warburg in association with the British Film InstitutePubDate: 1972PhysDes: 176 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.Notes: Bibliography: p.174-175.ISBN: 0436470022; 0436480028 (pbk)Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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Singin' in the rain / Peter Wollen London: BFI Publishing, 1992.
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Study Unit 9 : Orson Welles / notes compiled by Peter Wollen [London] ; [s.n.], 1969:
Call No: 81WEL WOLAuthor: Wollen, Peter Place: [London] ; [s.n.], 1969PhysDes: 34 p. : 30 cmSubject: WELLES, ORSON LON: abn98255218; 14057016
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Working papers on the cinema : sociology and semiology / edited by Peter Wollen London: British Film Institute, 1969].
Call No: 623.3 WORAuthor: Wollen, Peter, 1938- ed CorpAuthor: British Film Institute. Education DeptPlace: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 1969]PhysDes: 36 p. ; 25 cmNotes: Cover title; "First presented at seminars organized by The British Film Institute Education Department."; Includes bibliographical referencesISBN: 0851700020LON: 75438547; 286035
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