Bodies in Pain: Emotion and the Cinema of Darren Aronofsky

by Tarja Laine

Book 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, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785335219
• ISBN13: 9781785335211
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"