Abstractions and aesthetic representations of loss in film

• Main Author: Choo, Austen Jin Ting
• Other Authors: Wong Chen-Hsi
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Mass media::Broadcasting::Motion pictures and films::Film theory and criticism; DRNTU::Visual arts and music::Film::Digital
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/74235
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper aims to explore the aesthetic representations of death and loss in film through film theories and concepts like Schrader’s (1972) transcendental style and it’s application in the thesis film Kintsugi. Alongside comparisons to Kore-eda’s debut feature Maborosi, the visual language of loss...