Films and dreams : Tarkovsky, Bergman, Sokurov, Kubrick, and Wong Kar-wai / Thorsten Botz-Bornstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dreams in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Psychological aspects.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xi, 163 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2007]

Summary:

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 concern's. Thorsten 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 improbably 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.

Contents:

Introduction: Dreamtense and the Art of Film ix

1 From Formalist Ostranenie to Tarkovsky's "Logic of Dreams" 1

2 Space and Dream: Heidegger's, Tarkovsky's, and Caspar David Friedrich's Landscapes 19

3 On the Blurring of Lines: Alexandr Sokurov 31

4 Ingmar Bergman and Dream after Freud 37

5 A Short Note on Nordic Culture and Dreams 55

6 From "Ethno-Dream" to Hollywood: Schnitzler's Traumnovelle, Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, and the Problem of "Deterritorialization" 59

7 Wong Kar-wai and the Culture of the Kawaii 71

8 Aesthetics and Mysticism: Plotinus, Tarkovsky, and the Question of "Grace" 85

9 Image and Allegory: Tarkovsky and Benjamin 95

10 Ten Keywords Concerning Filmdream 105.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-153) and index.

ISBN:

9780739121870

0739121871

OCLC:

155129369