Language, Discourse, Society: Adrian Stokes and Film Aesthetics

O'Pray, M.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2004-08-05

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333537626

DOI: 10.1057/9780230535770

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 252