Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin Cultural Criticism and Film (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)

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Subversive Pleasures offers the first extended application of Mikhail Bakhtins 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.