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book		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?]. Call No: 71(41) OPR Author: Wollen, Peter, 1938; O'Pray, Michael, 1945 CorpAuthor: Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England) Place: London Publisher: ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts PubDate: 1993?] PhysDes: 48 p. : ill. ; 21 cm Subject: UNITED KINGDOM; INDEPENDENT FILMS. UK; INDUSTRY, FILM. UK; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. UK; INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS [LONDON] Notes: "The second ICA biennial of independent film and video" -- Cover; "Supported by the British Council, the Arts Council." ISBN: 0905263839 LON: 10200289 More info
book		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. Call No: 71(41) SWI Author: Swinton, Tilda; Sweeney, Moira; Wollen, Peter Place: London Publisher: Institute of Contemporary Arts PubDate: 1990 PhysDes: 36 p. : illus. ; 21 cm Subject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. UK; VIDEO ART ISBN: 0905263081 More info
journal article		The field of language in film in October (Summer 1981) iss.17 p.53-60 Author: Wollen, Peter PhysDes: Article Subject: 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 More info
book		Howard Hawks, American artist / edited by Jim Hillier and Peter Wollen London: BFI Publishing, 1996. Call No: 81HAW HOW Author: Hillier, Jim; Wollen, Peter, 1938 CorpAuthor: British Film Institute Place: London Publisher: BFI Publishing PubDate: 1996 PhysDes: 252 p. : ports. ; 24 cm Subject: HAWKS, HOWARD Notes: Includes index; Filmography: p. 231-240; Bibliography: p. 241-246 ISBN: 0851705928 (cased); 0851705928; 0851705936 (pbk) LON: 13041702 More info
book		Paris Hollywood : writings on film / Peter Wollen London ; New York: Verso, 2002. Call No: 67(04) WOL Author: Wollen, Peter Source: UK/US Place: London ; New York Publisher: Verso PubDate: 2002 PhysDes: vi, 314 p. ; 21 cm Subject: 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 JACKET Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes Includes filmography ISBN: 1859843913 Contents: -- 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 -- More info
Yet to catalogue book		Raiding the icebox : reflections on twentieth-century culture / Peter Wollen London: Verso, 1993. Call No: 60 WOL Author: Wollen, Peter, 1938 Place: London Publisher: Verso PubDate: 1993 PhysDes: viii, 222 p. ; 24 cm Notes: Includes index; Includes bibliographical references ISBN: 086091366X; 0860915786 (pbk) : No price LON: bnb86091366; 9088117 More info
book		Readings and writings : semiotic counter-strategies / Peter Wollen London: NLB, 1982. Call No: 623.3 WOL Author: Wollen, Peter, 1938 Place: London Publisher: NLB PubDate: 1982 PhysDes: ix, 228 p. ; 21 cm Subject: SEMIOLOGY; PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960); CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); VENT D'EST (FR/IT/GW, Jean-Luc Godard & Dziga Vertov Group, 1970) Notes: "Essays ... written during the period from 1968 to 1982"--Pref; Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0860910555 : ª15.00; 086091755X (pbk.) LON: bnb86091055; 2319525 More info
book		Signs and meaning in the cinema / Peter Wollen London: Secker and Warburg in association with the British Film Institute, 1972. Call No: 623.3 WOL Author: Wollen, Peter, 1938 Edition: 3rd. ed., rev. and enl Place: London Publisher: Secker and Warburg in association with the British Film Institute PubDate: 1972 PhysDes: 176 p. : ill. ; 20 cm Series: Cinema one ; 9 Subject: AUTEUR THEORY; SEMIOLOGY Notes: Bibliography: p.174-175 ISBN: 0436470022; 0436480028 (pbk) LON: cvx00750640; 2599034 More info
Levy Collection book		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: London Publisher: Secker and Warburg in association with the British Film Institute PubDate: 1972 PhysDes: 176 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Notes: Bibliography: p.174-175. ISBN: 0436470022; 0436480028 (pbk) Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		Singin' in the rain / Peter Wollen London: BFI Publishing, 1992. Call No: 79SIN WOL Author: Wollen, Peter, 1938 CorpAuthor: British Film Institute Place: London Publisher: BFI Publishing PubDate: 1992 PhysDes: 72 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 19 cm Series: BFI film classics Subject: SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (US, Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952) Notes: Bibliography: p. 70-72 ISBN: 0851703518; 0851703518 (pbk) : No price LON: 9206321 9206321 More info
book		Study Unit 9 : Orson Welles / notes compiled by Peter Wollen [London] ; [s.n.], 1969: Call No: 81WEL WOL Author: Wollen, Peter Place: [London] ; [s.n.], 1969 PhysDes: 34 p. : 30 cm Subject: WELLES, ORSON LON: abn98255218; 14057016 More info
book		Working papers on the cinema : sociology and semiology / edited by Peter Wollen London: British Film Institute, 1969]. Call No: 623.3 WOR Author: Wollen, Peter, 1938- ed CorpAuthor: British Film Institute. Education Dept Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 1969] PhysDes: 36 p. ; 25 cm Notes: Cover title; "First presented at seminars organized by The British Film Institute Education Department."; Includes bibliographical references ISBN: 0851700020 LON: 75438547; 286035 More info

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