Peter Wollen(1938-2019)
- Writer
- Director
- Actor
Film theorist and historian, director, and writer. Distinguished
Professor of Film and Television, UCLA. Co-author, with Mark Peploe, of
The Passenger (1975), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Curator of
numerous art exhibitions, including Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti
(1982). Author of Signs and Meaning in the Cinema (1969, 1972, 1998),
Readings and Writings (1981), and Raiding the Icebox: Reflections on
Twentieth Century Culture (1993), and the British Film Institute
monograph on Singin' in the Rain (1993).
