The Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film by Mikhail Iampolski embroidery format and approach

format and approach

as well as a bestiary of transformations woven through Guillaume Apollinaire and Graham Sutherland

has spent more than a decade researching Balanchine’s life and times to write a vast history of the twentieth century through the lens of one of its greatest artists: the definitive biography of the man his dancers called Mr

Last Dance at the Discotheque for Deviants is both a gripping mystery and a poignant

for whom the Devil has his own plans

The Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film by Mikhail Iampolski embroidery format and approachThe concept of intertextuality has proven of inestimable value in recent attempts to understand the nature of literature and its relation to other systems of cultural meaning. In The Memory of Tiresias, Mikhail Iamposlki presents the first sustained attempt to develop a theory of cinematic intertextuality. Building on the insights of semiotics and contemporary film theory, Iampolski defines cinema as a chain of transparent, mimetic fragments