Subversive Pleasures

Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film
Erscheinungsjahr 1992
ISBN: 978-0-8018-4509-3
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 478 g

Reihe: Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stam, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Translinguistics and Semiotics
Chapter 2. Language, Difference, and Power
Chapter 3. Film, Literature, and the Carnivalesque
Chapter 4. Of Cannibals and Carnivals
Chapter 5. The Grotesque Body and Cinematic Eroticism
Chapter 6. From Dialogism to Zelig
Envoi: Bakhtin and Mass-Media Critique
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stam, Robert
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.