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Peter Wollen (29 June 1938 – 17 December 2019) was a film theorist and filmmaker. He studied English at Christ Church, Oxford . Both political journalist and film theorist, Wollen's Signs and Meaning in the Cinema (1969) helped to transform the discipline of film studies by incorporating the methodology of structuralism and semiotics . [1]
Dec 20, 2019 · 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,...
Jan 8, 2020 · Peter Wollen, who has died aged 81 after suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, did much to launch film studies in the UK and US. In 1967 the pioneering teacher Paddy Whannel invited him to join ...
Film theorist and historian, director, and writer. Distinguished Professor of Film and Television, UCLA. Co-author, with Mark Peploe, of The Passenger (1975), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Curator of numerous art exhibitions, including Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti (1982).
Dec 20, 2019 · From his classic book Signs and Meanings in the Cinema to his filmmaking collaborations with Michelangelo Antonioni and Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen was the single most influential film theorist in the English language, and éminence grise of British film culture. 29 June 1938–17 December 2019.
Dec 26, 2019 · Peter Wollen, who in a wide-ranging career wrote the influential film theory book “Signs and Meaning in the Cinema,” directed or co-directed films, wrote screenplays for others and curated art...
Dec 20, 2019 · Filmmaker and theorist Peter Wollen, among a small group of British scholars who crystallized a new aesthetic paradigm that revitalized cinema studies in the late twentieth century, has died at age eighty-one.
