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Film, Form and Phantasy

Adrian Stokes and Film Aesthetics

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  • © 2004

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Authors:
  1. Michael O’Pray

    1. School of Architecture and the Visual Arts, University of East London, UK

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Part of the book series: Language, Discourse, Society (LDS)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Representation, Expression and Phantasy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Representation, Depiction and Portrayal in Film

      • Michael O’Pray
      Pages 3-26

    3. Expression, Projection and Style in Film

      • Michael O’Pray
      Pages 27-49

    4. Phantasy

      • Michael O’Pray
      Pages 50-71

  3. Adrian Stokes: Carving and Modelling

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. Stokes: The Carving and Modelling Modes

      • Michael O’Pray
      Pages 75-91

    3. A Stokesian and Kleinian Interpretation

      • Michael O’Pray
      Pages 92-103

  4. Montage and Realism in Film

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. The Carving Mode: Rossellini, Antonioni and Dreyer

      • Michael O’Pray
      Pages 107-136

    3. Montage and Modelling Values in Sergei Eisenstein

      • Michael O’Pray
      Pages 137-156

    4. Carving Values and John Ford

      • Michael O’Pray
      Pages 157-173

    5. Modelling Values and Alfred Hitchcock

      • Michael O’Pray
      Pages 174-184

    6. Modelling in Light and Dark

      • Michael O’Pray
      Pages 185-212

    7. Conclusion

      • Michael O’Pray
      Pages 213-214

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 215-252
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Architecture and the Visual Arts, University of East London, UK

    Michael O’Pray

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).

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