Subversive pleasures : Bakhtin, cultural criticism, and film /

Applying Bakhtin's critical methods to film, mass-media and cultural studies, Stam draws on Bakhtin's corporal semiotics of "the grotesque body" to analyze eroticism in the cinema, and explores issues including the "translinguistic" critique of Saussurean semiotics and...

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Main Author: Stam, Robert, 1941-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1989.
Series:Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
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Summary:Applying Bakhtin's critical methods to film, mass-media and cultural studies, Stam draws on Bakhtin's corporal semiotics of "the grotesque body" to analyze eroticism in the cinema, and explores issues including the "translinguistic" critique of Saussurean semiotics and Russian formalism.
Physical Description:xiii, 274 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258) and index.
ISBN:0801838142
9780801838149
0801845092
9780801845093