The Aesthetics of Nature and the Cinematic Sublime: A Creative Investigation into an Organic Transcendental Film Style
The aim of this practice-based screen arts doctoral thesis is to investigate how cinematic representations of nature evoke an aesthetic of the sublime. The thesis answers this research question both through experimental film practice and critical analysis of theoretical and artistic texts. Informed...
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Curtin University
2017
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| author | Jennings, Danny Roy |
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| description | The aim of this practice-based screen arts doctoral thesis is to investigate how cinematic representations of nature evoke an aesthetic of the sublime. The thesis answers this research question both through experimental film practice and critical analysis of theoretical and artistic texts. Informed by concepts such as the sublime, transcendence, the metaphysical imagination, critical realism and phenomenology, and the films Werner Herzog and Andrei Tarkovsky, this thesis investigates an organic transcendental film style. |
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| institution | Curtin University Malaysia |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-589842017-11-30T05:42:12Z The Aesthetics of Nature and the Cinematic Sublime: A Creative Investigation into an Organic Transcendental Film Style Jennings, Danny Roy The aim of this practice-based screen arts doctoral thesis is to investigate how cinematic representations of nature evoke an aesthetic of the sublime. The thesis answers this research question both through experimental film practice and critical analysis of theoretical and artistic texts. Informed by concepts such as the sublime, transcendence, the metaphysical imagination, critical realism and phenomenology, and the films Werner Herzog and Andrei Tarkovsky, this thesis investigates an organic transcendental film style. 2017 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/58984 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Jennings, Danny Roy The Aesthetics of Nature and the Cinematic Sublime: A Creative Investigation into an Organic Transcendental Film Style |
| title | The Aesthetics of Nature and the Cinematic Sublime: A Creative Investigation into an Organic Transcendental Film Style |
| title_full | The Aesthetics of Nature and the Cinematic Sublime: A Creative Investigation into an Organic Transcendental Film Style |
| title_fullStr | The Aesthetics of Nature and the Cinematic Sublime: A Creative Investigation into an Organic Transcendental Film Style |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Aesthetics of Nature and the Cinematic Sublime: A Creative Investigation into an Organic Transcendental Film Style |
| title_short | The Aesthetics of Nature and the Cinematic Sublime: A Creative Investigation into an Organic Transcendental Film Style |
| title_sort | aesthetics of nature and the cinematic sublime: a creative investigation into an organic transcendental film style |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/58984 |