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Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film

By Robert Stam

Book information

Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year
1992
ISBN
0801838142, 9780801838149
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11992274 bytes)
Series
Parallax. Re-visions of Culture and Society
Pages
XIV+274\292
Topic
Art Cinema
Time added
2019-12-31 20:44:22

Description

"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, Buñuel, Wertmüller, 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. Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Translinguistics and Semiotics 26 2. Language, Difference, and Power 57 3. Film, Literature, and the Carnivalesque 85 4. Of Cannibals and Carnivals 122 5. The Grotesque Body and Cinematic Eroticism 157 6. From Dialogism to "Zelig" 187 Envoi: Bakhtin and Mass-Media Critique 219 Notes 241 Index 259

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