Film, Form and Phantasy: Adrian Stokes and Film Aesthetics

by Michael 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333537629
• ISBN13: 9780333537626
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"