On Skorin-Kapov’s Darren Aronofsky’s Films and the Fragility of Hope and Laine’s Bodies in Pain: Emotion and the Cinema of Darren Aronofsky

Darren Aronofsky’s Films and the Fragility of Hope. By Jadranka Skorin-Kapov. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. 216 pp., ISBN 978-1501306976. US $32. Bodies in Pain: Emotion and the Cinema of Darren Aronofsky. By Tarja Laine. New York: Berghahn Books, 2015. 194 pp., ISBN 978-1782385752. US $115