Subversive Pleasures offers the first extended application of Mikhail Bakhtin's critical methods to film, mass-media, and cultural studies. With extraordinary interdisciplinary and multicultural range, Robert Stam explores issues that include the "translinguistic" critiquw of Saussurean semiotics and Russian formalisn, the question of language difference in the cinema, issues of national culture in Latin America, and "the carnivalesque" in literature and film. He discusses literary works by Rabelais, Shakespeare, and Jarry and treats films by Vigo, Bunuel, Wertmuller, Imamura, Mel Brooks, Monty Python, Marleen Gooris, and others. Now in Paperback Subversive Pleasuresis a splendidly lucid introduction to the central concepts and analytical methods of Bakhtin and the Bakhtin circle.
| ISBN: | 9780801845093 |
| Publication date: | 1st September 1992 |
| Author: | Robert Stam |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 274 pages |
| Series: | Parallax : Re-Visions of Culture and Society |
| Genres: |
Literary theory |
Subversive Pleasures offers the first extended application of Mikhail Bakhtin's critical methods to film, mass-media, and cultural studies. With extraordinary interdisciplinary and multicultural range, Robert Stam explores issues that include the "translinguistic" critiquw of Saussurean semiotics and Russian formalisn, the question of language difference in the cinema, issues of national culture in Latin America, and "the carnivalesque" in literature and film. He discusses literary works by Rabelais, Shakespeare, and Jarry and treats films by Vigo, Bunuel, Wertmuller, Imamura, Mel Brooks, Monty Python, Marleen Gooris, and others. Now in Paperback Subversive Pleasuresis a splendidly lucid introduction to the central concepts and analytical methods of Bakhtin and the Bakhtin circle.
Subversive Pleasures features in the following genres: Literary theory
Subversive Pleasures is available in Paperback
Subversive Pleasures was written by Robert Stam and published by Johns Hopkins University Press
Subversive Pleasures has 274 pages
Yes it is part of Parallax : Re-Visions of Culture and Society series