The films of Darren Aronofsky invite emotional engagement by means of affective resonance between the film and the spectator's lived body. Aronofsky's films, which include a rich range of production from Requiem for a Dream to Black Swan, are often considered "cerebral" because they explore topics like mathematics, madness, hallucinations, obsessions, social anxiety, addiction, psychosis, schizophrenia, and neuroscience. Yet this interest in intelligence and mental processes is deeply embedded in the operations of the body, shared with the spectator by means of a distinctively corporeal audiovisual style. Bodies in Pain looks at how Aronofsky's films engage the spectator in an affective form of viewing that involves all the senses, ultimately engendering a process of (self) reflection through their emotional dynamics.
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NOISE
33
Pi
,
just
as
the
protagonist
undergoes
migraine
attacks,
so
does
the
film
itself,
metaphorically
speaking.
Pi
’s
complex
filmic
style
could
not
be
accounted
for
merely
on
the
basis
of
Frampton’s
concept
of
‘filmind’,
though.
Pi
con-
stitutes
corporeal
aesthetics
ruled
by
a
unified,
transactional
wholeness
of
operative
logic,
embodying
a
gestural
and
postural
similarity
to
Max’s
lived-
body
in
pain.
Furthermore,
the
spectator
feels
the
effects
of
this
pain
by
ex-
periencing
its
significance
organically
from
the
inside,
as
the
film’s
disorderly
–
or
should
I
say
noisy
–
condition
violently
wrecks
the
spectator’s
embodied
and
mindful
engagement
with
it.
Paranoia
Max’s
physical
condition
is
accompanied
by
another
disturbed
state
of
the
lived-body,
namely
paranoia,
epitomized
in
the
recurring
event
of
Max
staring
through
a
peephole.
This
is
shot
from
his
point
of
view,
followed
by
a
series
of
close-ups
of
his
hand
opening
the
many
security
locks
on
his
door.
The
graphic
match
and
the
quick
succession
of
these
shots
almost
create
a
jump
Figure
1.1.
Migrainous
nausea.
Screen
capture,
Pi
(1998).
Table of contents
- Bodies in Pain
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter One. Noise
- Chapter Two. Rhythm
- Chapter Three. Grief
- Chapter Four. Masochism
- Chapter Five. The Uncanny Sublime
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
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