Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780809013876ISBN:0809013878
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Break in spine, but no marks on pages. (CL) Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780809013876ISBN:0809013878
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Pages are clean, wraps are bumped at the head, as well as the fore edge corner at the foot, the wraps are scratched. the book is cracked. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780374521363ISBN:0374521360
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Fontana Books, London, UK
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780006348801ISBN:0006348807
Description: Near Fine Minus. 220 pages and 8 (4) pages of photo illustrations. Essays selected and translated by Stephen Heath. Single light spine crease otherwise fine. read more
Edition: 3rd Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780809013876ISBN:0809013878
Description: Fair. No Dust Jacket as Issued. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight/covers creased and slightly soiled; moderate edge wear/ numerious pages have underlining and margin notes/ corners creased and slightly frayed/ several page tips creased/ page edges slightly soiled. read more
Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780006861355ISBN:0006861350
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 224 pages. (224 pages) fontana press. roland barthers reissue with new jacket. facsimiles edition new ed (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Distribution Servi
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780006348801ISBN:0006348807
Description: Good. PAPERBACK BOOK-GOOD OVERALL CONDITION-TRUSTED DEVON (UK) BASED SELLER-IN STOCK-SENT WITHIN 1 WORKING DAY-AVAILABLE BY EMAIL FOR QUERIES-NO QUIBBLE REFUND IF NOT COMPLETELY SATISFIED- read more
Description: New. 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... read more
"This is a classic work of critical theory by the French writer Roland Barthes. It is by turn illuminating, bewildering, infuriating, contradictory, and revelatory. For graphic designes, the most relevant essays are "The Rhetoric of the Image," about the signification of commercial photography, and "The Death of the Author" and "From Work to Text," about new models of reading and writing. The last two piece in particular had a big impact on experimental design in the late 80s and early 90s. Those were some inventive times."
"The only other Barthes i've read was MYTHOLOGIES, which I loved. I loved how rooted that was in the real world, while this book felt completely insular and abstract. I'm also disappointed how little this book, with "music" in the title, actually spoke about music. There is one rather obnoxious essay about the difference between the active practice of music and the consumption of music as a passive listener, which seems to me like the work of someone with a very limited imagination of music's power. I did, however, really like the first few essays about photography and reading images. But while I could recommend MYTHOLOGIES to most of my reading friends, I would have a hard time recommending anyone to put this on their reading list.
(I should admit that perhaps my less than enthusiastic response has more to do with the fact that this is the complete antithesis of a summer book, and it's possible I might simply not be in the mood.)"
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