The philosophy of David Cronenberg /
Initially regarded as a cult figure with a strong following amongst sci-fi and horror film fans, Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg emerged as a major and commercially viable film director with mainstream hits such as A History of Violence (2005) and Eastern Promises (2007). With his unique ability...
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Table of Contents:
- The fly and the human : ironies of disgust / Colin McGinn
- Tragedy and terrible beauty in A history of violence and Eastern promises / Cynthia Freeland
- Cronenberg as scientist : antiessentialism, sex as remixing, and the view from nowhere / Peter Ludlow
- What happens to Brundle? Problems of teleportation and personal identity in The fly / Paul F. Snowdon
- eXistenZial angst / Duncan Pritchard
- "Freaks of nature" : extrasensory perception and the paranormal in the films of David Cronenberg / Keith Allen
- Deception and disorder : unraveling Cronenberg's divided minds / Simon Riches
- Psychological determinism in the films of David Cronenberg / Daniel Shaw
- Self-creation, identity, and authenticity : a study of A history of violence and Western promises / Daniel Moseley
- The fiction of truth in fiction : some reflections on semantics and eXistenZ / Graham Stevens
- Re(ct)ifying empty speech : Cronenberg and the problem of the first person / Brook W.R. Pearson
- The politics of mad science in The fly and Dead ringers / R. Barton Palmer
- From "impassioned morality" to "bloodless agnosticism" : a philosophy of David Cronenberg through the Burroughs/Ballard axis / Jones Irwin.