Wollen, Peter

LC control no.	n 50013812
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Wollen, Peter *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Other standard no.	0000000110256438 42141806 Q997312
Associated place	Los Angeles (Calif.)
Birth date	1938-06-29
Death date	2019-12-17
Place of birth	Woodford (London, England)
Field of activity	Film criticism Motion picture authorship Motion pictures--Production and direction Television--Production and direction
Affiliation	University of California, Los Angeles
Profession or occupation	University and college faculty members Film critics Screenwriters Motion picture producers and directors Television producers and directors Film teachers College teachers
Found in	His Signs and meaning in the cinema, 1969. LC in OCLC: Feb. 10, 1998: (hdg.: Wollen, Peter, 1938-) Autopia, 2002: t.p. (Peter Wollen) p. 3 of cover (prof. film sudies, Univ. Calif. Los Angeles) Guardian WWW site, viewed Jan. 9, 2020 (Peter Wollen, writer and film-maker, born 29 June 1938, Woodford, north-east London; died 17 December 2019; Wollen's own involvement in film-making began as a writer on Mark Peploe's screenplay for what became Michelangelo Antonioni's final international success, The Passenger (1975). With Laura Mulvey, whom he had married in 1968, Wollen then made a series of essayistic films. Wollen's critical work had continued with his essay The Two Avant-gardes (1975). He continued to make television arts documentaries on both sides of the Atlantic, while teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1988 until early-onset Alzheimer's led to his retirement in 2005)
Associated language	eng