Film, Form and Phantasy: Adrian Stokes and Film Aesthetics

by M. O'Pray

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333537626
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/05/2004
Series:	Language, Discourse, Society
Edition description:	2004
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

MICHAEL O'PRAY is Professor of Film at the School of Architecture, Art and Design at the University of East London. His previous books include Andy Warhol: Film Factory (editor, 1989), Inside the Pleasure Dome: The Films of Kenneth Anger (co-edited with Jayne Pilling,1990), The British Avant-Garde Film: 1926-1995: An Anthology of Writings (editor, 1996), Derek Jarman: Dreams of England (1996) and The Avant-Garde Film: Themes, Forms and Passions (2003).

Table of Contents

Introduction PART ONE: REPRESENTATION, EXPRESSION AND PHANTASY Representation, Depiction and Portrayal in Film Expression, Projection and Style in Film Phantasy PART TWO: ADRIAN STOKES - CARVING AND MODELLING Stokes: The Carving and Modelling Modes A Stokesian and Kleinian Interpretation PART THREE: MONTAGE AND REALISM IN FILM The Carving Mode: Rossellini, Antonioni and Dreyer Montage and Modelling Values: Eisenstein Carving Values and John Ford Modelling Values and Alfred Hitchcock Modelling in Light and Dark Conclusion Bibliography Index