Film, Form and Phantasy: Adrian Stokes and Film Aesthetics (Language, Discourse, Society)
Description
This book explores the ideas of the neglected English aesthetician and art historian, Adrian Stokes. Stokes's Kleinian-based concepts of carving and modelling are analysed in relation to film, arguing that they replace the traditional notions of realism and montage in film theory and provide a set of aesthetics which encompasses mainstream and 'art' cinema. This Kleinian psychoanalytic approach is offered to the films of Eisenstein, Rossellini, Hitchcock and others.
Keywords
PERFORMING ARTS
2004Book
Author(s)Michael O'Pray
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780333537626
LanguageEnglish
