Filming the body in crisis : trauma, healing and hopefulness / Davina Quinlivan, Kingston University, UK.

  • Quinlivan, Davina
Date:
2015
  • Books

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Description

"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.

Publication/Creation

Houndmills, Basinstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Physical description

x, 187 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm

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Contents

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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 9781137361363
  • 1137361360