Signs and Meaning in Cinema - Bfi Silver Author:Peter Wollen Published as part of the BFI Silver series, this is the third edition of Peter Wollen's seminal work of film theory. First published in 1969, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema helped to transform the discipline of film studies by incorporating the methodology of structuralism and semiotics. Featuring a new foreword by David Rodowick, this text exp... more »lores the way in which a new approach to the cinema can be combined with a new approach to aesthetics. The book is divided into three main sections: the first deals with the work of S.M. Eisenstein, both as a director and theorist of his art. The second concerns the auteur theory and investigates the recurrence of themes and images throughout a director's career. The third section shows how the study of cinema can be considered as a province of the general study of signs.« less