Education
Iampolski gained a Bachelor in 1971 at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute and a Doctor of Philosophy in French Philosophy in 1977 at the Russian Academy of Pedagogical Sciences.
( The concept of intertextuality has proven of inestimabl...)
The 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 intermixed with quotations he calls "textual anomalies." These challenge the normalization of meaning and seek to open reading out onto the unlimited field of cultural history, which is understood in texts as a semiotically active extract, already inscribed. Quotations obstruct mimesis and are consequently transformed in the process of semiosis, an operation that Iampolski defines as reading in an aura of enigma. In a series of brilliant analyses of films by D.W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, and Luis Buñuel, he presents different strategies of intertextual reading in their work. His book suggests the continuing centrality of semiotic analysis and is certain to interest film historians and theorists, as well as readers in cultural and literary studies.
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Iampolski gained a Bachelor in 1971 at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute and a Doctor of Philosophy in French Philosophy in 1977 at the Russian Academy of Pedagogical Sciences.
He is the author of The Memory of Tiresias. He has taught at Harvard University, University of Lausanne, and at the Moscow State Institute of Cinema Arts. He has held the position of Getty Scholar at the Jean Paul Getty Center for the History of Arts and the Humanities.
( The concept of intertextuality has proven of inestimabl...)
Socialist realism without shores.