Tarja Laine

Bodies in Pain (eBook, ePUB)

Emotion and the Cinema of Darren Aronofsky

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The films of Darren Aronofsky invite emotional engagement by means of affective resonance between the film and the spectator's lived body. Aronofsky's films, which include a rich range of production from Requiem for a Dream to Black Swan, are often considered "cerebral" because they explore topics like mathematics, madness, hallucinations, obsessions, social anxiety, addiction, psychosis, schizophrenia, and neuroscience. Yet this interest in intelligence and mental processes is deeply embedded in the operations of the body, shared with the spectator by means of a distinctively corporeal audiovisual style. Bodies in Pain looks at how Aronofsky's films engage the spectator in an affective form of viewing that involves all the senses, ultimately engendering a process of (self) reflection through their emotional dynamics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781836959694
• Artikelnr.: 76026268

Autorenporträt

Tarja Laine is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the University of Amsterdam, and Adjunct Professor of Film Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. She is the author of Feeling Cinema: Emotional Dynamics in Film Studies (2011) and Shame and Desire: Emotion, Intersubjectivity, Cinema (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Aronofsky, Auteurship, Aesthetics
Chapter 1. Noise: Pi
* Migraine
* Paranoia
* Anxiety
Chapter 2. Rhythm: Requiem for a Dream
* Rhythm, Emotion, and Film Aesthetics
* Artificial Rhythm
* Dysphoric Rhythm
Chapter 3. Grief: The Fountain
Mind and Body
Science and Spirituality
Finitude and Infinitude
Working Through Grief
Chapter 4. Masochism: The Wrestler
* Nostalgia in Denial
* Masochism and Spectatorship
Chapter 5. The Uncanny Sublime: Black Swan
* Aestheticized/Embodied Pain
* Uncanny Personhood
* Pain and Pleasure
Conclusion
Appendix: Darren Aronofsky Filmography
Bibliography
Index