Image, Music, Text

Barthes, Roland; Heath, Stephen (TRN)

ISBN 10: 0374521360 / ISBN 13: 9780374521363

Published by Hill and Wang, 1978

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Image, Music, Text
• Publisher: Hill and Wang
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374521360
• ISBN 13: 9780374521363
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

These essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image. The classic pieces "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative" and "The Death of the Author" are also included.

About the Authors

Roland Barthes changed the way a generation read. A cultural commentator before his time, his careful if playful analysis of texts revolutionised the way we comprehend cultural products. Both critic and literary essayist, his writings continue to provoke. His best known work includes Mythologies, Camera Lucida, Image-Music-Text, The Empire of Signs, A Lover's Discourse, Writing Degree Zero, S/Z and The Fashion System.

Translated by Andy Stafford, Senior Lecturer in French Studies, University of Leeds and edited by Andy Stafford and Michael Carter, Department of Art History and Theory, University of Sydney.

Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a major French writer, literary theorist and critic of French culture and society.

Stephen Heath is a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and the author of Questions of Cinema (1985), among other books.