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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Main Author: Jennings, Danny Roy
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/58984
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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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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