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.
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.
List of FiguresAcknowledgements1. Introduction2. Resistance and Reparation: Steve McQueen's 3. Queer Bodies Between Hopefulness and Rebirth: Rewriting and Transforming the Matter of Bodies in (Isaac Julien) and (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 Cardiff5. Cronenberg's Cure: , and The Spectre of Psychosis in 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 (Malick, 2011)7. Remapping the Body of Hope: A Map of Emotion, Love and the Cartographic Image in Braden King's (2011)8. The Female Butterfly Collector: The Body in Crisis and the French ConclusionPostscriptReferencesIndex