Overview

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 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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Author:   Tarja Laine
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9781782385752

ISBN 10:   1782385754
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   01 February 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

Bodies in Pain offers nuanced and persuasive interpretations of Darren Aronofsky's films, yet it is more than a study of an auteur director. Rather, Laine conceptualises film authorship as a co-creative process that involves the intentions and achievements of the filmmaker - [and] attributes to Aronofsky a distinctively corporeal audio-visual style that produces visceral, emotionally grueling responses in audience members, even as it invites thoughtful reflection on themes of obsession, delusion, and the fraught relationship between mind and body. * Jane Stadler, the University of Queensland

Author Information

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).

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