Arlo Draws an Octopus

These essays by Peter Gidal include 'Theory and Definition of Structural/Materialist Film', as well as other texts on metaphor and narrative and against sexual representation. Also discussed in their specificity are works by Samuel Beckett, Therese Oulton, Gerhard Richter, and Andy Warhol. Throughout, his writing attempts a political aesthetics, polemical as well as theoretical.