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Memory of Tiresias : Intertextuality and Film by Mikhail Iampolski (1998, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520085302
ISBN-139780520085305
eBay Product ID (ePID)999240
Product Key Features
Number of Pages285 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameMemory of Tiresias : Intertextuality and Film
Publication Year1998
SubjectFilm / General, Semiotics & Theory
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Performing Arts
AuthorMikhail Iampolski
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN97-025664
TitleLeadingThe
Table Of ContentACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION PART I· BASIC CONCEPTS Chapter 1. Cinema and the Theory of Intertextuality PART II· NARRATIVE'S WAY: D. W. GRIFFITH Chapter 2. Repressing the Source: D. W. Griffith and Browning Chapter 3· Intertextuality and the Evolution of Cinematic Language:Griffith and the Poetic Tradition PART III· BEYOND NARRATIVE: AVANT-GARDE CINEMA Chapter 4· Cinematic Language as Quotation: Cendrars and Leger Chapter 5· Intertext against Intertext: Bunuel and Dali's Un Chien andalou PART IV· THEORISTS WHO PRACTICED Chapter 6. The Hero as an "Intertextual Body": Iurii Tynianov's Lieutenant Kizhe Chapter 7· The Invisible Text as a Universal Equivalent:Sergei Eisenstein CONCLUSION NOTES WORKS CITED INDEX
SynopsisThe concept of intertextuality has proven of inestimable value in recent attempts to understand the nature of literature and its relation to other systems of cultural meaning. In The Memory of Tiresias , Mikhail Iamposlki presents the first sustained attempt to develop a theory of cinematic intertextuality. Building on the insights of semiotics and contemporary film theory, Iampolski defines cinema as a chain of transparent, mimetic fragments intermixed with quotations he calls "textual anomalies." These challenge the normalization of meaning and seek to open reading out onto the unlimited field of cultural history, which is understood in texts as a semiotically active extract, already inscribed. Quotations obstruct mimesis and are consequently transformed in the process of semiosis, an operation that Iampolski defines as reading in an aura of enigma. In a series of brilliant analyses of films by D.W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, and Luis Bu uel, he presents different strategies of intertextual reading in their work. His book suggests the continuing centrality of semiotic analysis and is certain to interest film historians and theorists, as well as readers in cultural and literary studies., The concept of intertextuality has proven of inestimable value in recent attempts to understand the nature of literature and its relation to other systems of cultural meaning. In The Memory of Tiresias , Mikhail Iamposlki presents the first sustained attempt to develop a theory of cinematic intertextuality. Building on the insights of semiotics and contemporary film theory, Iampolski defines cinema as a chain of transparent, mimetic fragments intermixed with quotations he calls "textual anomalies." These challenge the normalization of meaning and seek to open reading out onto the unlimited field of cultural history, which is understood in texts as a semiotically active extract, already inscribed. Quotations obstruct mimesis and are consequently transformed in the process of semiosis, an operation that Iampolski defines as reading in an aura of enigma. In a series of brilliant analyses of films by D.W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, and Luis Buñuel, he presents different strategies of intertextual reading in their work. His book suggests the continuing centrality of semiotic analysis and is certain to interest film historians and theorists, as well as readers in cultural and literary studies.
LC Classification Number97-25664
