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 Series
Edition description:	2004
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Michael O'Pray is Reader in Film at the School of Architecture, Art and Deisgn at the University of East London.

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