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Filming the body in crisis : trauma, healing and hopefulness

Title: Filming the body in crisis : trauma, healing and hopefulness / Davina Quinlivan, Kingston University, UK.
Author: Quinlivan, Davina
Publication: Houndmills, Basinstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Description

x, 187 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"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)"--

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-183) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction: Hopefulness -- 2. Resistance and Reparation: Steve McQueen's Hunger -- 3. Queer Bodies between Hopefulness and Rebirth: Rewriting and Transforming the Matter of Bodies in Isaac Julien's True North and Derek Jarman's Blue -- 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) and Contemporary Film Space -- 8. The French Female Butterfly Collector: The Body in Crisis and the French cinéma du corps -- Conclusion -- Postscript: Hopefulness, Healing and its Contestation.

Call Number

MFL 15-5869

ISBN

9781137361363 (hardback)
1137361360 (hardback)

LCCN

2015019263

OCLC

910090977

Author

Quinlivan, Davina, author.

Title

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

Publisher

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

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-183) and index.

Chronological Term

1900 - 2099

Research Call Number

MFL 15-5869

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