TY - BOOK AU - Slemon,Shona TI - Maya Deren s poetic psychodrama: an intersection of surrealism, psychoanalysis and film noir U1 - Thesis Fine Art 15/21 PY - 2015///. CY - Limerick : PB - Limerick School of Art and Design/LIT KW - Theses KW - LSAD KW - Clare Street KW - Fine art theses KW - Maya Deren KW - American filmaker KW - Meshes of the Afternoon N1 - The objective of this thesis is to situate American filmmaker Maya Deren s 1943 experimental film Meshes of the Afternoon at an intersection of psychoanalysis, Surrealism and what American film historian Thomas Shatz has termed poetic psychodrama , through a consideration of Deren s filmic space and the role of film in the 1940 s post-war America.; Thesis submitted for B.A. Hons in Fine Art (Painting) 2015; Includes bibliographical references ER -