Darren Aronofsky's Films and the Fragility of Hope, by Jadranka Skorin-Kapov

Abstract

Darren Aronofsky’s Films and the Fragility of Hope, which discusses all of the American director’s films released from 1998 to 2014, is author Jadranka Skorin-Kapov’s third book and her first text related directly to film studies. Previous books by the author, who is a professor in Stony Brook University’s College of Business, primarily address aesthetics and continental philosophy. Her diverse scholarly background proves to be an important asset for this book wherein the author uses key terms from the disciplines that she is a part of, compares Aronofsky to multiple existential philosophers and discusses the symbolic significance of spirals and other mathematical patterns in Pi (1998), for example.

Keywords

• film studies
• aesthetics
• continental philosophy
• phenomenology
• emotion
• existential philosopy
• symbolic significance
• spirals
• mathematical pattern
• pi
• noah