Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film

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.

Author: Robert Stam
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 09/01/1992
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.02w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780801845093

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