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From: Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities[(essay date Winter/Spring 1996) In the following essay, Collins examines the films They Came from Within,Rabid, and The Brood, comparing each with the work of surrealist artists, and also treats Cronenberg's use of...
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From: Sight and Sound[(interview date March 1992) In the following interview, Cronenberg discusses the similarities between his and William Burroughs's creative work, his use of visual imagery to reproduce metaphors onscreen, and his...
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From:Cinema Journal (Vol. 42, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: This essay argues that reception studies need to pay greater attention to topical and rhetorical references in film criticism. Specifically, the article analyzes references to AIDS in criticism of the films of...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFilmmaker David Cronenberg has gained an idenity as a prominent Canadian artist through works such as 'Naked Lunch' and 'The Fly.' Cronenberg's films are characterized by a conflict against nature and the sense of...
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From: Sight and Sound[(essay date July 1999) In the following essay, McKellar writes of his first impressions and his later impressions of The Brood.] I saw David Cronenberg's The Brood in Toronto in 1979 at the world's first Cineplex. I...
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From: Film Quarterly[(interview date Spring 1992) In the following interview, Jaehne talks with Cronenberg about the making of Naked Lunch, particularly how the film tackled the difficult, then-taboo subject matter found in William...
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From: Sight and Sound[(review date May 1999) In the following review of eXistenZ, Jackson writes that the film is unthreatening and unsatisfying. Despite its unconventionality and its creation of an alternate-reality games world, the film...
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From: Cinema Journal[(essay date Winter 1998) In the following essay, Suner writes that the foundation of Cronenberg's film M. Butterfly is based upon the conflict between the colonizer and the colonized, between West and East, between male...
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From:CineAction (Vol. 87)David Cronenberg's Fast Company (1978) has always had somewhat of a controversial presence in the director's filmography. A love letter to his passion for cars and motor racing rather than a clinical and abject...
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From:CineAction (Issue 88)Initial reactions to low budget horror films are often as visceral as the themes and imagery that the genre explores and exploits. By the time David Cronenberg's movie Scanners was released in early 1981, the filmmaker...
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From: Journal of Canadian Studies[(essay date Winter 1992-93) In the following essay, Beard provides an in-depth analysis of The Dead Zone, placing it within the context of Cronenberg's other works.] With the exception of some discomfort experienced...
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From: Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities[(essay date Winter/Spring 1996) In the following essay Beard examines several themes found in Dead Ringers, such as sexual otherness, the struggle for a male identity, emotional paralysis, rationality versus nature, and...
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From: Publications of the Modern Language Association[(essay date May 1991) In the following essay, Frank discusses the portrayal of male identity and the representation of women inDead Ringers.] I expected somebody who looked like a combination of Arthur Bremmer and...
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From:CineAction (Issue 43)The "videodrome" of my title has several referents: It is a special signal transmitted through television causing a brain tumor in the viewer that induces hallucinations. People so infected are transformed into human...
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From: Stanford Humanities Review[(essay date Winter 1993) In the following essay, Parker explores sexuality, AIDS, and national identity in Rabid. He theorizes that the horror genre and other "narrative systems" contributed to a popular conception...
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From:Velvet Light Trap (Issue 52) Peer-ReviewedCyberspace is more than a breakthrough in electronic media or in computer interface design. With its virtual environments and simulated worlds, cyberspace is a metaphysical laboratory, a tool for examining our very...
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From: Screen[(essay date Summer 1999) In the following essay, Smith discusses the auto accidents that occur in the film Crash in the context of Freud's thought on male and female hysteria, trauma, and the connection between sex and...
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From:CineAction (Issue 65)David Cronenberg has long reigned as one of the principal North American auteurs of independent filmmaking. As a Canadian filmmaker, he has defined himself repeatedly in opposition to Hollywood feature filmmaking. He...
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From: Sight and Sound[(review date April 1999) In the following review, Rodley discusses the comedy, the double meanings, and the various levels of reality in the film eXistenZ.] eXistenZ. It's new. And it's here. It's a virtual-reality...
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From:Velvet Light Trap (Issue 52) Peer-ReviewedSince the late 1970s and early 1980s, the cyborg has emerged as a dominant figure in science fiction cinema. Images of this figuration have entered the popular imagination, and the celluloid cyborg has become synonymous...