Bodies in Pain

Tarja Laine is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the University of Amsterdam, and Adjunct Professor of Film Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. She is the author of Feeling Cinema: Emotional Dynamics in Film Studies (2011) and Shame and Desire: Emotion, Intersubjectivity, Cinema (2007).

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Aronofsky, Auteurship, Aesthetics Chapter 1. Noise: Pi Migraine Paranoia Anxiety Chapter 2. Rhythm: Requiem for a Dream Rhythm, Emotion, and Film Aesthetics Artificial Rhythm Dysphoric Rhythm Chapter 3. Grief: The Fountain Mind and Body Science and Spirituality Finitude and Infinitude Working Through Grief Chapter 4. Masochism: The Wrestler Nostalgia in Denial Masochism and Spectatorship Chapter 5. The Uncanny Sublime: Black Swan Aestheticized/Embodied Pain Uncanny Personhood Pain and Pleasure Conclusion Appendix: Darren Aronofsky Filmography Bibliography Index

"Bodies in Pain offers nuanced and persuasive interpretations of Darren Aronofsky's films, yet it is more than a study of an auteur director. Rather, Laine conceptualises film authorship as a co-creative process that involves the intentions and achievements of the filmmaker - [and] attributes to Aronofsky a distinctively corporeal audio-visual style that produces visceral, emotionally grueling responses in audience members, even as it invites thoughtful reflection on themes of obsession, delusion, and the fraught relationship between mind and body." * Jane Stadler, the University of Queensland