Peter Wollen, film theorist and filmmaker, has died at the age of 81. Wollen is best known for writing the 1969 film theory book “Signs and Meaning in the Cinema,” which became famous for approaching ...

Peter Wollen, who wrote and directed the early Tilda Swinton movie 'Friendship's Death' and penned 'Signs and Meaning in the Cinema,' an influential 1969 book about film theory, died Tuesday in ...

Introduction / Peter Wollen -- Shrines, curiosities, and the rhetoric of display / Stephen Bann -- Death and life, in that order, in the works of Charles Willson Peale / Susan Stewart -- The Musée ...

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In this rich and insightful new collection of essays on art, Wollen, who is currently the chair of the department of film, television and digital media at UCLA, offers his take on a slew of ...

The importance of being Andy : the 'Warhol's worlds' keynote lecture, 1995 / Christopher Hitchens -- Andy Warhol : Renaissance man / Peter Wollen -- Andy Warhol the writer / Victor Bockris -- **** / ...

In June 1995, the Museum of Modern Art in New York announced that it had acquired a series of 15 paintings by the German artist Gerhard Richter, collectively entitled October 18, 1977. At 11 p.m. on ...

Wollen's "Signs and Meaning in the Cinema" is widely regarded was one of the most important books on film theory, and it helped change Swinton's life. Peter Wollen, film theorist and filmmaker, has ...

My first thoughts, in connection with suits, are of Lucky Lucan, Joseph Beuys and the Thin White Duke, at the head of an imaginary horde of accountants, dandies, clubland heroes, zoot-suiters and ...