Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

Films and Dreams (eBook, PDF)

Tarkovsky, Bergman, Sokurov, Kubrick, and Wong Kar-Wai

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Films and Dreams considers the essential link between films and the world of dreams. To discuss dream theory in the context of film studies means moving from the original, clinical context within which dream theory was originally developed to an environment established by primarily aesthetic concerns. Botz-Bornstein deals with dreams as "self-sufficient" phenomena that are interesting not because of their contents but because of the "dreamtense" through which they deploy their being. A diverse selection of films are examined in this light: Tarkovsky's anti-realism exploring the domain of the improbable between symbolization, representation and alienation; Sokurov's subversive attacks on the modern image ideology; Arthur Schnitzler's shifting of the familiar to the uncanny and Kubrick's avoidance of this structural model in Eyes Wide Shut; and Wong Kar-Wai's dreamlike panorama of parodied capitalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739131435
• Artikelnr.: 38217419

Autorenporträt

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein is assistant professor of philosophy at Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Dreamtense and the Art of Film Chapter 2 Chapter 1. From Formalist Ostranenie to Tarkovsky's 'Logic of Dreams' Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Space and Dream: Heidegger's
Tarkovsky's
and Caspar David Friedrich's Landscapes Chapter 4 Chapter 3. On the Blurring of Lines: Alexander Sokurov Chapter 5 Chapter 4. Ingmar Bergman and Dream After Freud Chapter 6 Chapter 5. A Short Note on Nordic Culture and Dreams Chapter 7 Chapter 6. From "Ethno-Dream" to Hollywood: Schnitzler's Traumnovelle
Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut
and the Problem of "Deterritorialization" Chapter 8 Chapter 7. Wong Kar-wai and the Culture of the Kawaii Chapter 9 Chapter 8. Aesthetics and Mysticism: Plotinus
Tarkovsky and the Questions of 'Grace' Chapter 10 Chapter 9. Image and Allegory: Tarkovsky and Benjamin Chapter 11 Chapter 10. Ten Keywords Concerning Filmdream: Surrealism
Expressionism
Superimposition
Daydream
The Uncanny
Dream Transfers
Dream Colors
Dream Realism
Dream Rituals
Dream Certitudes