Filming the Body in Crisis: Trauma, Healing and Hopefulness

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Hopefulness....Pages 1-28
Resistance and Reparation: Steve McQueen’s Hunger....Pages 29-43
Queer Bodies between Hopefulness and Rebirth: Rewriting and Transforming the Matter of Bodies in Isaac Julien’s True North and Derek Jarman’s Blue....Pages 44-59
The Haunted House Egoyan Built: Archiving the Ghosted Body and Imagination in the Films of Atom Egoyan and the Art of Janet Cardiff....Pages 60-76
Cronenberg’s ‘Cure’: A Dangerous Method, Spider and The Spectre of Psychosis in The Lost Explorer....Pages 77-95
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 Treeof Life (Malick, 2011)....Pages 96-113
Remapping the Body of Hope:A Map of Emotion, Love and the Cartographic Image in Braden King’s HERE (2011) and Contemporary Film Space....Pages 114-129
The French Female Butterfly Collector: The Body in Crisis and the cinéma du corps....Pages 130-141
Conclusion....Pages 142-145
Postscript: Hopefulness,Healing and Its Contestation....Pages 146-156
Back Matter....Pages 157-187