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π (Pi)

Jason Wood

Jason Wood is a writer, film programmer and filmmaker. He is Artistic Director of Film at HOME, Visiting Professor at MMU and Visiting Professor at University of Salford, UK, and the author of a number of books including The Faber Book of Mexican Cinema (2006), Nick Broomfield: Documenting Icons (2005), 100 Road Movies (BFI 2007) and Talking Movies: Contemporary World Directors in Interview (2006). He contributes to a range of publications including Sight & Sound, The Guardian, Vertigo and Little White Lies. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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100 American Independent Films : BFI Screen Guides

British Film Institute, 2009

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...Drawing upon inspirations as diverse as Shinya Tsukamoto’s body horror classic Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1991), the novels of William Gibson and the theories and philosophies of Baudrillard and Hegel, Aronofsky’s p (the Greek symbol...

Requiem for a Dream: Addiction and Broken Dreams

Jadranka Skorin-Kapov

Jadranka Skorin-Kapov is Professor of Operations Research at Stony Brook University, USA, with a diverse background in mathematics, philosophy, and art history and criticism. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Darren Aronofsky’s Films and the Fragility of Hope

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...You know who’s somebody now? Who’s no longer just a widow in a little apartment who lives alone? I am somebody now, Harry. Everyone likes me. Soon millions of people will see me and like me.Aronofsky’s theme of a unifying pattern continues...

On Auteurship, Aronofsky’s Themes and Stylistic Signature

Jadranka Skorin-Kapov

Jadranka Skorin-Kapov is Professor of Operations Research at Stony Brook University, USA, with a diverse background in mathematics, philosophy, and art history and criticism. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Darren Aronofsky’s Films and the Fragility of Hope

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...I think starting with something that is very much grounded in reality, and then trying to add to it and make it something more, helps. That often happens when an actor gets involved, especially with really talented actors. They are always...

Black Swan: Limit Experience and Artistic Perfection

Jadranka Skorin-Kapov

Jadranka Skorin-Kapov is Professor of Operations Research at Stony Brook University, USA, with a diverse background in mathematics, philosophy, and art history and criticism. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Darren Aronofsky’s Films and the Fragility of Hope

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...Perfection is not just about control. It’s also about letting go. Surprise yourself, so you can surprise the audience. Transcendence.Following The Wrestler (2008), Aronofsky’s next film is Black Swan (2010), which to some extent relates...

Noah: Responsibility, Love, and the Moment of Choice

Jadranka Skorin-Kapov

Jadranka Skorin-Kapov is Professor of Operations Research at Stony Brook University, USA, with a diverse background in mathematics, philosophy, and art history and criticism. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Darren Aronofsky’s Films and the Fragility of Hope

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...The choice was put in your hands because He put it there. He asked you to decide if we were worth saving. And you chose mercy. You chose love.In March 2014, a TV advertisement for Aronofsky’s Noah quoted the Rolling Stone Magazine...

The Wrestler: Melodrama and the Gift of Death

Jadranka Skorin-Kapov

Jadranka Skorin-Kapov is Professor of Operations Research at Stony Brook University, USA, with a diverse background in mathematics, philosophy, and art history and criticism. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Darren Aronofsky’s Films and the Fragility of Hope

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...You know in this life you can lose everything that you love, everything that loves you. . . . You people here are the ones worth bringing it for because you’re my family. I love all of you.In 2008, Aronofsky directed The Wrestler, a story...

π: Is Mathematics “The Language of Nature”?

Jadranka Skorin-Kapov

Jadranka Skorin-Kapov is Professor of Operations Research at Stony Brook University, USA, with a diverse background in mathematics, philosophy, and art history and criticism. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Darren Aronofsky’s Films and the Fragility of Hope

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...I’m not interested in your money. I’m searching for a way to understand our world. I’m searching for perfection.Aronofsky’s first feature film π (1998), which he directed and for which he served as a screenwriter, introduced originality...

The Fountain: Death and the Authenticity of Existence

Jadranka Skorin-Kapov

Jadranka Skorin-Kapov is Professor of Operations Research at Stony Brook University, USA, with a diverse background in mathematics, philosophy, and art history and criticism. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Darren Aronofsky’s Films and the Fragility of Hope

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...Death is a disease. It’s like any other. And there is a cure. A cure. And I will find it.The Fountain (2006) was Aronofsky’s third feature film, and while it differs in visual effects from his previous films, the underlying search for unity...

Queer Encounters with Feminist Politics: Dancing Bodies in The Tango Lesson and Black Swan

Katharina Lindner

Katharina Lindner is Lecturer in Film and Media and a member of the Centre for Gender and Feminist Studies at the University of Stirling. She was also a professional footballer in a former life. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Film Bodies : Queer Feminist Encounters with Gender and Sexuality in Cinema

I.B. Tauris, 2018

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...Dancing, perhaps the most highly complex and codified of kinesthetic practices, is one of the most important arenas of public physical enactment. Jane C Desmond, ‘Making the invisible visible: staging sexualities through dance’, in JC...

Fighter

Keri Walsh

Keri Walsh is Assistant Professor of English at Fordham University in New York. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Mickey Rourke

British Film Institute, 2014

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...I’ll be real honest. I’m never, ever going to be the caliber of fighter of James Toney, you know what I’m saying? I know that. I’ve come to terms with that. But you know, you take Alec Baldwin and Daniel Day-Lewis and Kevin Costner, all...