Peter Wollen
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Emerging from a London upbringing, he studied English at Christ Church, Oxford before moving into political journalism and film theory; his 1969 book Signs and Meaning in the Cinema introduced structuralist and semiotic methods and quickly became a cornerstone of film studies, later issued in revised editions through 2013. He joined the British Film Institute’s education department in the late 196…
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