Bodies in pain : emotion and the cinema of Darren Aronofsky / / Tarja Laine

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787403403321
• Autore: Laine Tarja
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : berghahn, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-78238-576-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (194 p.)
• Classificazione: AP 51400
• Disciplina: 791.4302/33092
• Soggetti: Emotions in motion pictures
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents ""; ""Figures ""; ""Acknowledgements ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Chapter One. Noise""; ""Chapter Two. Rhythm""; ""Chapter Three. Grief""; ""Chapter Four. Masochism""; ""Chapter Five. The Uncanny Sublime""; ""Conclusion ""; ""Appendix ""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Index ""
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 aud