Film, Form and Phantasy by M O'pray

Film, Form and Phantasy by M O'pray

Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
Summary

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.

The feel-good place to buy books
  • Free US shipping over $15
  • Buying preloved emits 41% less CO2 than new
  • Millions of affordable books
  • Give your books a new home - sell them back to us!

Film, Form and Phantasy by M O'pray

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.
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).
SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9780333537626
ISBN 10 0333537629
Title Film, Form and Phantasy
Author M O'pray
Series Language Discourse Society
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Year published 2004-08-05
Number of pages 252
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.