The memory of Tiresias : intertextuality and film / Mikhail Iampolski ; translated by Harsha Ram.

Author/creator I͡A︡mpolʹskiĭ, M. B.
Format Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©1998.
Description326 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Uniform titlePami͡a︡tʹ Tiresii͡a︡. English
Contents Cinema and the theory of intertextuality -- Repressing the source : D.W. Griffith and Browning -- Intertextuality and the evolution of cinematic language : Griffith and the poetic tradition -- Cinematic language as quotation : Cendrars and Léger -- Intertext against intertext : Buñuel and Dali's Un chien andalou -- The hero as an "Intertextual body" : Iurii Tynianov's Lieutenant Kizhe -- The invisible text as a universal equivalent : Sergei Eisenstein.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 283-299) and index.
LCCN 97025664
ISBN0520085299 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0520085302 (pbk. : alk. paper)