{"product_id":"memory-of-tiresias-intertextuality-and-film-paperback","title":"Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMikhail Iampolski\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHarsha Ram\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Memory of Tiresias\u003c\/i\u003e, Mikhail Iamposlki presents the first sustained attempt to develop a theory of cinematic intertextuality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuilding 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQuotations 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIampolski deals with concepts and ideas that are highly complex and frequently very abstract, yet his discussionand the progression of his analysesis always precise and easy to follow. . . . Each of his points is grounded in a careful examination of a specific text, and most of the texts are well-known to American audiences.Vladimir Padunov, University of Pittsburgh\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIampolski deals with concepts and ideas that are highly complex and frequently very abstract, yet his discussion--and the progression of his analyses--is always precise and easy to follow. . . . Each of his points is grounded in a careful examination of a specific text, and most of the texts are well-known to American audiences.--Vladimir Padunov, University of Pittsburgh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMikhail Iampolski\u003c\/b\u003e teaches in the departments of Slavic and Comparative Literature and Russian Studies at New York University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 285\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.82 x 8.96 x 6.02 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 26, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47453471408306,"sku":"9780520085305","price":66.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/8b34d28731297397d103e63628109eef.webp?v=1778831709","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/memory-of-tiresias-intertextuality-and-film-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}