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Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions (Short Cuts)

2 reviews
Michael O'Pray

Wallflower Press, 2003

A Solid Introduction to Avant-Garde Film
One of the major stumbling blocks for people first starting out on the winding road into the world of avant-garde film, is not so much the films, but the theory. The films are perfectly understandable if one is well versed in the techniques of cinema, in identifying those aspects of film form that oppose the mainstream and therefore can be broadly classified as avant-garde. The films are often ...

Film, Form and Phantasy: Adrian Stokes and Film Aesthetics (Language, Discourse, Society)
Michael O'Pray

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

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 analyzed 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 applied to the films of Eisenstein, Rossellini, ...

Andy Warhol's Blow Job.(Book Review): An article from: Cineaste
Michael O'Pray

Cineaste Publishers, Inc., 2003

This digital document is an article from Cineaste, published by Cineaste Publishers, Inc. on December 22, 2003. The length of the article is 1724 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Andy Warhol's Blow Job.(Book Review) Author: ...

Andy Warhol: Film Factory

1 review
Michael O'Pray

British Film Inst, 1990

Yawn
Read it for a film class. Personally neither his filmmaking nor his painting do much for me.

Derek Jarman: Dreams of England
Michael O'Pray

British Film Institute, 1996

Derek Jarman's extraordinary cinematic achievement and his pivotal role in postwar English culture are at the heart of this pioneering study of an enigmatic figure who was both a major filmmaker and an artist, a gay activist and an English patriot. Michael O'Pray, who knew Jarman in the 80s, weaves together a compelling account of his life with illuminating analysis of his films, from the home movies through the pop videos to the acclaimed ...

The British Avant-Garde Film: 1926-1995: An Anthology of Writings (Arts Council Arts & Media)

University Of Luton Press, 2003

This collection of essays celebrating British avant-garde cinema's rich history draws together writings by filmmakers, theorists, critics, and curators. These individuals have been engaged over the past 70 years with film not only as a form of art practice but also as a subversive means of representing British society itself and as a personal expression of issues of memory, sexuality, and ethnicity. Included are essays from a wide range of ...