Lana Stockton
As a PhD candidate from 2013-2020, my research has focused on Roberto Bolano's 2666 and Gerald Murnane's The Plains. This is literary and cultural studies research with interest in memory, trauma, and visuality. I look forward to more research projects in this field.
My 2012 honours thesis looked at the melancholic feelings in Wong Kar-wai’s film 2046. I reviewed discourses relating to melancholia and its relation to time, inspected the framing techniques and poetic nature of melancholic time, and investigated the anamorphic qualities of the film. By approaching the film from a psychoanalytic perspective, I offered a meditation on the melancholic disappointment that arises from attempts to capture time or anchor memory; postcolonial Hong Kong, as a space of transition, is a national space that cannot be counted upon.
Supervisors: Antonio Traverso
My 2012 honours thesis looked at the melancholic feelings in Wong Kar-wai’s film 2046. I reviewed discourses relating to melancholia and its relation to time, inspected the framing techniques and poetic nature of melancholic time, and investigated the anamorphic qualities of the film. By approaching the film from a psychoanalytic perspective, I offered a meditation on the melancholic disappointment that arises from attempts to capture time or anchor memory; postcolonial Hong Kong, as a space of transition, is a national space that cannot be counted upon.
Supervisors: Antonio Traverso
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