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Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film Paperback - 1992

by Robert Stam

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Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society. First paperback edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. xiii/274 pages.""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" critique 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...a splendidly lucid introduction to the central concepts and analytical methods of Bakhtin and the Bakhtin circle."
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  • Title Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film
  • Author Robert Stam
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
  • Date 1992
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2242
  • ISBN 9780801845093 / 0801845092
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.04 x 6.02 x 0.73 in (22.96 x 15.29 x 1.85 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 89002594
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.43

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In the last few years, the Russian author Mikhail Bakhtin has become one of the most influential and controversial thinkers on the contemporary scene.

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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" critique of Saussurean semiotics and Russian formalism, 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 Pleasures is a splendidly lucid introduction to the central concepts and analytical methods of Bakhtin and the Bakhtin circle.

About the author

Robert Stam is professor of cinema studies at New York University. He is the author of The Interrupted Spectacle, Reflexivity in Film and Literature, and New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics, and coauthor of Brazilian Cinema.

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