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"It Was Perfect": Desire, Corporeality, and Denial in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan
Published 2017-05-01“…Drawing on theories of gender and corporeality, my contribution focuses on the representation and implications of eating disorders and deliberate self-harm practices as portrayed in Darren Aronofsky’s feature film Black Swan (2010). Protagonist Nina Sayers is rendered as a perfectionist workaholic whose compulsions include scratching and peeling off her skin. …”
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A Woman by Nature? Darren Aronofsky’s <i>mother!</i> as American Ecofeminist Gothic
Published 2020-05-01“…In this essay, I discuss Darren Aronofsky’s 2017 feature film <i>mother!</i> in the context of an intersectional approach to ecofeminism and the American gothic genre. …”
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The Black Swan di Darren Aronofsky. Lo specchio come indagine psicanalitica sulla pazzia
Published 2014-07-01“…Darren Aronofsky's 'The Black Swan' is certainly one of the most emblematic and controversial movie of the recent years. …”
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Tarja Laine (2015) Bodies in Pain: Emotion and the Cinema of Darren Aronofsky, Oxford: Berghahn. 196pp.
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A Myth for the Sixth Mass Extinction: Telling Noah’s Story during a Climate Crisis
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Vicious Circles
Published 2013-09-01“… The narrative produced around and by the characters in Darren Aronofsky’s 2006 film The Fountain serves to expose a fruitful path for Intersectional Theory other than the fight for social justice in public policy: an analysis of the ways in which even privileged subject positions are constructed in order to constitute a wide range of integrated discourses of difference. …”
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O Lago e o Cisne: Uma Análise de Cisne Negro em Cotejo com o Balé O Lago dos Cisnes
Published 2016-09-01“… Este artigo desenvolve uma análise comparativa entre o balé “O Lago dos Cisnes” (1877), de Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky, e o filme “Cisne Negro”(2010), dirigido pelo norte-americano Darren Aronofsky. Por meio da semiótica francesa, mergulhamos na narrativa do filme e procuramos entender como se dá a construção de sentidos e quais são as estratégicas depreendidas pelo diretor para estabelecer uma relação de intertextualidade ou mesmo uma tradução intersemiótica de “O Lago dos Cisnes”. …”
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Reflecting the doppelgänger.
Published 2011“…Bearing in mind the various issues pertaining to the subject of madness, this paper will seek to delve into thematic explorations of the doppelgänger through analyses of three highly acclaimed works which draw our focus to the notion of the double: Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club, along with its film adaptation by David Fincher, and Black Swan (2010), as directed by Darren Aronofsky.…”
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How invisible cities, Donnie Darko & the fountain are postmodern.
Published 2012“…The text and films used are Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Richard Kelly's cult classic Donnie Darko, and Darren Aronofsky's complex sci-fi drama, The Fountain.…”
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From Impulse to Action—<i>Noah</i> (2014) and <i>Exodus: Gods and Kings</i> (2014) as Secular Bible Epics
Published 2021-11-01“…Yet, while many biblical films of this period were primarily aimed at religious audiences, Darren Aronofsky’s <i>Noah</i> (2014) and Ridley Scott’s <i>Exodus:</i><i>Gods and Kings</i> (2014) stand out due to their broader epic appeal and religious skepticism. …”
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