{"product_id":"arrows-of-desire-selected-writings-1963-2002","title":"Arrows of Desire: Selected Writings 1963-2002","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new anthology of uncollected writings by Peter Wollen, cultural critic, avant-garde filmmaker and curator of paradigm-shifting exhibitions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection, the first of three new volumes, brings together unpublished and inaccessible writings on counter-cinema, anti-imperialist politics and revolutionary Mexican art. Playful, theoretically rigorous and historically precise, Peter Wollen’s writing reinvented criticism as a formally experimental practice indexing the intellectual, political and artistic histories of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArrows of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e presents texts on Eisenstein and Godard alongside essays and interviews tracing developments in film and video from the 1970s to the 1990s. It tracks the political energies running through Wollen’s filmmaking and writing on global politics and culture in relation to Iran, Indonesia, Palestine, Aden and Zanzibar. Wollen’s rereading of the avant-garde extends into expansive projects linking Mexican muralism, Native American abstraction and US abstract expressionism. These essays and proposals demonstrate his commitment to contesting the dominant histories and geographies of modernism and modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This thrilling book does more than confirm Peter Wollen’s place as perhaps the most incisive thinker to triangulate cinema, art and politics in the post-1968 period: by collecting lesser-known texts and astutely contextualising them, it reveals Wollen’s daring interdisciplinary expansiveness. With a critical and passionate gaze, Wollen meets his changing times in essays full of historical consciousness and conviction, launching arrows that sail into the darkness of our present with a shock of illumination. If this first book is anything to go by, the next two volumes of these previously uncollected writings can’t come soon enough.\" Erika Balsom, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Edges of Cinema\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eThe single most influential film theorist in the English language.\" Henry K. Miller, \u003cem\u003eSight and Sound\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A brilliant mind. Peter wrote on film, art, politics, fashion, on culture generally. To say Peter Wollen was preternaturally and uniquely gifted is not adequate.\" Lynne Tillman, \u003cem\u003eArtforum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An intransigently original and politically engaged figure.\" Edward Said, \u003cem\u003eNation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Thirty-six striking essays, across a breathtaking range of subjects and in a dizzying register of moods and tones, at once brilliant and revelatory\" JOHN AKOMFRAH\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The writings of curator and filmmaker Peter Wollen serve as a historical touchstone and source of theoretical fuel.\" NICOLE BRENEZ\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeter Wollen (1938-2019) was a cultural critic, film theorist, curator and avant-garde filmmaker. His books include \u003ci\u003eSigns and Meaning in the Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRaiding the Icebox\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReadings and Writings\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSingin’ in the Rain\u003c\/i\u003e. He co-wrote the screenplay for Antonioni’s \u003ci\u003eThe Passenger\u003c\/i\u003e, and subsequently made six films in collaboration with Laura Mulvey, including \u003ci\u003eRiddles of the Sphinx\u003c\/i\u003e. His final film was a solo project, \u003ci\u003eFriendship’s Death\u003c\/i\u003e, starring Tilda Swinton.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67800273354845,"sku":"9781836741176","price":40.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/arrowsofdesire.jpg?v=1792514871","url":"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/fr\/products\/arrows-of-desire-selected-writings-1963-2002","provider":"Leftwingbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}