Subversive Pleasures offers the first extended application of Mikhail Bakhtin's critical methods to film, mass-media, and cultural studies. With extraordinary interdisciplinary and multicultural range, Robert Stam explores issues that include the "translinguistic" critique of Saussurean semiotics and Russian formalism, 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 Pleasures is a splendidly lucid introduction to the central concepts and analytical methods of Bakhtin and the Bakhtin circle.
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Creatively extends Bakhtin's ideas into such hitherto-neglected spheres as the mass media and film theory... An imaginative and productive addition to the burgeoning literature on Mikhail Bakhtin.
(Theory, Culture, and Society )Insightful... In moving from broad theoretical questions to a social pragmatic, Stam manages to focus on issues Bakhtin never addressed, yet the relevant nature of his applicability is made all the more apparent.
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A fine book by a a top Bakhtin theorist!,
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This review is from: Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society) (Paperback)
Here is an academic book that anyone interested in language, literature, and cinema should love. Beautifully written (as few academic books are), it applies the cultural criticism of Russian writer Mikhail Bakhtin to a diverse selection of novels and films, but most notably to those from Brazil. It is a match made in heaven, because both Bakhtin and Brazil believe in carnival (the joyful festivities that take place just before Lent, known in the States as Mardi Gras) and the carnivalesque (where rules are suspended, the oppressed take center stage, the powerful are mocked, and the body is celebrated). Stam begins by providing a clear and thorough overview of Bakhtin's precepts and terminology (dialogism, chronotope, heteroglossia), showing how his writing can fill in the gaps left by other theories and illuminate both artistic texts and everyday life. He then moves on to discuss the conjunction between Bakhtin and film theory specifically, providing elegant analyses of Bunuel's "Exterminating Angel," Godard's "Two or Three Things I Know About Her," Welles's unfinished "It's All True" (much of which was shot in Brazil), Brazilian classics such as "Macunaima," and "Mar das Rosas/Sea of Roses." and several others. Along the way, he takes in such issues as the grotesque and magical body, the subversive as well as the pleasurable potential of carnival, the uses of cannibalism, and cinematic eroticism. This wide-ranging study takes in everything from music (by Brazilian composers Caetano Veloso and Chico Buarque, plus rap) to the influence of the Yiddish theater on Woody Allen's "Zelig." An outstanding book that's a delight to read.
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translinguistic perspective, cinematic eroticism, translinguistic approach, cannibalist metaphor, carnivalesque strategies, intertextual dialogism, situated utterance, marketplace speech, gay relativity, carnivalesque tradition, lower bodily stratum, familiar contact, mutual illumination, dominant cinema, responsive understanding, unitary language, speech genres, grotesque body, literary series, grotesque realism, inner speech, artistic text Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Latin American, Third World, Cinema Novo, Oswald de Andrade, Woody Allen, Mario de Andrade, United States, New York, Stardust Memories, Les Carabiniers, Soviet Union, Susan Sontag, Grande Otelo, North American, Problems of Dostoeusky's Poetics, The Exterminating Angel, Ubu Roi, First World, Jean-Luc Godard, Mel Brooks, Tropical Fruit, Allon White, Helen of Troy, Irving Howe, Last Supper New!
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translinguistic perspective, cinematic eroticism, translinguistic approach, cannibalist metaphor, carnivalesque strategies, intertextual dialogism, situated utterance, marketplace speech, gay relativity, carnivalesque tradition, lower bodily stratum, familiar contact, mutual illumination, dominant cinema, responsive understanding, unitary language, speech genres, grotesque body, literary series, grotesque realism, inner speech, artistic text Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Latin American, Third World, Cinema Novo, Oswald de Andrade, Woody Allen, Mario de Andrade, United States, New York, Stardust Memories, Les Carabiniers, Soviet Union, Susan Sontag, Grande Otelo, North American, Problems of Dostoeusky's Poetics, The Exterminating Angel, Ubu Roi, First World, Jean-Luc Godard, Mel Brooks, Tropical Fruit, Allon White, Helen of Troy, Irving Howe, Last Supper New!
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- Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin on 17 pages
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- Joyful Wisdom by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche on 5 pages
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- Postcolonial Masquerades: Culture and Politics in Literature, Film, Video, and Photography (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Niti Sampat Patel on page 40, page 44, and Back Matter
- Female Prostitution in Costa Rica: Historical Perspectives, 1880-1930 (Latin American Studies: Social Sciences and Law) by Anne Hayes in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Literature and Film: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation by Robert Stam on page 250, and page 291
- Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society) by Rob Wilson on page 169, and Back Matter
- Defining Visual Rhetorics by Charles A. Hill on page 131, and page 133
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