Filming the Body in Crisis [recurso electrónico] : Trauma, Healing and Hopefulness

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. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction: Hopefulness....Pages 1-28 Resistance and Reparation: Steve McQueen’s Hunger....Pages 29-43 Queer Bodies between Hopefulness and Rebirth: Rewriting and Transforming the Matter of Bodies in Isaac Julien’s True North and Derek Jarman’s Blue....Pages 44-59 The Haunted House Egoyan Built: Archiving the Ghosted Body and Imagination in the Films of Atom Egoyan and the Art of Janet Cardiff....Pages 60-76 Cronenberg’s ‘Cure’: A Dangerous Method, Spider and The Spectre of Psychosis in The Lost Explorer....Pages 77-95 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 Treeof Life (Malick, 2011)....Pages 96-113 Remapping the Body of Hope:A Map of Emotion, Love and the Cartographic Image in Braden King’s HERE (2011) and Contemporary Film Space....Pages 114-129 The French Female Butterfly Collector: The Body in Crisis and the cinéma du corps....Pages 130-141 Conclusion....Pages 142-145 Postscript: Hopefulness,Healing and Its Contestation....Pages 146-156 Back Matter....Pages 157-187 "Filming the Body in Crisis engages with the subject of reparation as a vital element of film experience in the 21st century. It explores this in two ways: first, in the context of the thematic presentation of the healing mind and body on screen and, second, as an affective attribute of the image itself in which a 'healing' body is registered at the level of reception. Its close analyses of particular films emphasize cinema's potential to resemble an 'object' of hope. This leads to the interrogation of what might be understood as the restorative dimensions of film viewing and its negotiation of trauma. The book includes analysis of films such as The Tree of Life (Malick, 2011), A Dangerous Method (Cronenberg, 2011) and Blue (Jarman, 1993)"-- Provided by publisher