Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film

by Robert Stam and Professor Robert Stam

Book Overview

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"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801845092
• ISBN13: 9780801845093
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"