Filming the Body in Crisis [electronic resource] : Trauma, Healing and Hopefulness /
Quinlivan, Davina.author.
How does film affect the way we understand crises of the body and mind and how does it manifest other kinds of crises levelled at the spectator? This book offers vital scholarly analysis of the embodied nature of film viewing and the ways in which film deals with the question of loss, the healing body and its material registering of trauma.
Includes filmography.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. Resistance and Reparation: Steve McQueen's Hunger -- 3. Queer Bodies Between Hopefulness and Rebirth: Rewriting and Transforming the Matter of Bodies in True North (Isaac Julien) and Blue (Derek Jarman) -- 4. The Haunted House Egoyan Built: Archiving the Ghosted Body and Imagination in the Films of Atom Egoyan and the Art of Janet Cardiff -- 5. Cronenberg's Cure: A Dangerous Method, Spider and The Spectre of Psychosis in The Lost Explorer -- 6. The Softness of Her Hair and The Texture of Silk: The Mother's Body and Klein's Theory of 'Love, Guilt and Reparation' in The Tree of Life (Malick, 2011) -- 7. Remapping the Body of Hope: A Map of Emotion, Love and the Cartographic Image in Braden King's HERE (2011) -- 8. The Female Butterfly Collector: The Body in Crisis and the French cinema du corps -- Conclusion -- Postscript.
How does film affect the way we understand crises of the body and mind and how does it manifest other kinds of crises levelled at the spectator? This book offers vital scholarly analysis of the embodied nature of film viewing and the ways in which film deals with the question of loss, the healing body and its material registering of trauma.
Motion pictures—History.
Human body—Social aspects.
Arts.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Communication.
Motion pictures and television.
Film History.
Sociology of the Body.
Arts.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Media Studies.
Screen Studies.