Filming the Body in Crisis

Davina Quinlivan is Senior Lecturer in Performance and Screen Studies at Kingston University, UK. She is the author of The Place of Breath in Cinema (2012).

List of Figures Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Resistance and Reparation: Steve McQueen's Hunger 3. Queer Bodies Between Hopefulness and Rebirth: Rewriting and Transforming the Matter of Bodies in True North (Isaac Julien) and Blue (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 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) 8. The Female Butterfly Collector: The Body in Crisis and the French cinema du corps Conclusion Postscript References Index