Author

Publication

1992-09-01 - The Johns Hopkins University Press

Language

English

Word Count

72,000 words, Guess

Page Count

288 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100801845092
  • ISBN-139780801845093
  • Goodreads469597
  • Better World Books9780801845093
  • Open LibraryOL7870020M

Description

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.

First Sentence

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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