Bodies in Pain

Emotion and the Cinema of Darren Aronofsky
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-521-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 293 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Laine, Tarja

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Einzelne Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseure, Drehbuchautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Aronofsky, Auteurship, Aesthetics

Chapter 1. Noise: Pi

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Migraine

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Paranoia

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Anxiety

Chapter 2. Rhythm: Requiem for a Dream

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Rhythm, Emotion, and Film Aesthetics

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Artificial Rhythm

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Dysphoric Rhythm

Chapter 3. Grief: The Fountain

Mind and Body

Science and Spirituality

Finitude and Infinitude

Working Through Grief

Chapter 4. Masochism: The Wrestler

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Nostalgia in Denial

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Masochism and Spectatorship

Chapter 5. The Uncanny Sublime: Black Swan

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Aestheticized/Embodied Pain

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Uncanny Personhood

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Pain and Pleasure

Conclusion

Appendix: Darren Aronofsky Filmography

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Laine, Tarja
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).