| Author | : Bart Beaty |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 153 |
| Release | : 2008-01-01 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0802099327 |
David Cronenberg's A History of Violence - the lead title in the new Canadian Cinema series - presents readers with a lively study of some of the filmmaker's favourite themes: violence, concealment, transformation, sex, and guilt.
| Author | : John Wagner |
| Publisher | : Vertigo |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Assassins |
| ISBN | : 9781401231897 |
Originally published: New York: Paradox Press, 1997.
| Author | : Simon Riches |
| Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2012-05-23 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0813140609 |
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 to present imagery that is both disturbing and provocative, Cronenberg creates striking films, noteworthy not just for their cinematic beauty but also for the philosophical questions they raise. The Philosophy of David Cronenberg examines Cronenberg's body of work, from his breakthrough Scanners (1981) through his most recognizable films such as The Fly (1986) and more recent works. Editor Simon Riches and a collaboration of scholars introduce the filmmaker's horrific storylines and psychologically salient themes that reveal his pioneering use of the concept of "body horror," as well as his continued aim to satirize the modern misuse of science and technology. The Philosophy of David Cronenberg also explores the mutation of self, authenticity and the human mind, as well as language and worldviews. While Cronenberg's films have moved from small-market cult classics to mainstream successes, his intriguing visions of humanity and the self endure.
| Author | : Mark Browning |
| Publisher | : Intellect (UK) |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : |
For more than thirty years, David Cronenberg has made independent films such as "Scanners" and "A History of Violence" which aim to disturb, surprise, and challenge audiences. He has also repeatedly drawn on literary fiction for inspiration, adapting themes from authors like William Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, and Patrick McGrath for the big screen; "David Cronenberg: Author or Filmmaker?" is the first book to explore how underground and mainstream fiction have influenced and can help illuminate his labyrinthine films. Film scholar Mark Browning examines Cronenberg s literary aesthetic not only in relation to his films obvious source material, but by comparing his movies to the writings of Vladimir Nabokov, Angela Carter, and Bret Easton Ellis. This groundbreaking volume addresses Cronenberg s narrative structures and his unique conception of auteurism, as well as his films shocking psychological frameworks, all in the broader context of film adaptation studies. "David Cronenberg" is an essential read for anyone interested in the symbiotic relationship between literature and filmmaking. "David Cronenberg" is a work that attempts to illuminate and unravel the connection between the great Canadian auteur and his literary influences. "Film Snob Weekly""" "David Cronenberg" is an essential read for anyone interested in the symbiotic relationship between literature and filmmaking. "Video Canada""" """""
| Author | : David Cronenberg |
| Publisher | : Knopf Canada |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Motion picture producers and directors |
| ISBN | : 9780394222707 |
David Cronenberg is Canada's most provocative director. With internationally acclaimed films such as "Scanners, The Fly, Dead Ringers and "Naked Lunch, he has demonstrated his ability to touch painful nerves and invest his own unique genre with a rare philosophical and emotional intensity. In this stimulating, vivid book--combining memoir, behind-the-scenes movie stories and unsettling and original insights into the traumas of the late 20th century--David Cronenberg reveals the concerns and obsessions which dominate his rich, complex work.
| Author | : Ernest Mathijs |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : |
This volume explores the proliferation of contemporary art that uses sequences of images to explore ideas of space, time, movement and duration. Etienne-Jules Marey, Eadweard Muybridge and other 'chronophotographers' first explored these ideas at the turn of the nineteenth century; since then chronophotography has been in the shadow of cinema, but now it is emerging once again in post-cinema practices, digital art and new experimental photography. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, artists have found that sequences offer new opportunities for exploring continuing issues regarding aesthetics that operate at the intersection of time and space.#13;#13;The book contains number of illustrated essays by international critics and theorists and discusses the work of a wide range of artists engaged in contemporary chronophotography. The introduction also uses insights from chronophotography to dispel the myth of persistence of vision.
| Author | : Scott Wilson |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2011-08-18 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1441191550 |
Canadian film director David Cronenberg has long been a figure of artistic acclaim and public controversy. Bursting into view with a trio of shocking horror films in the 1970s, Cronenberg's work has become increasingly complex in its sensibilities and inward-looking in its concerns and themes. This trajectory culminates in the multiplex successes of his most recent films, which appear to conclude a straightforward evolutionary arc that begins in the cold outside of shock-horror and arrives in the warm embrace of commercial and critical success. Scott Wilson argues persuasively that Cronenberg's career can be divided into broad thematic stages and instead offers a complex examination of the relationship between three inter-related terms: the director as auteur; the industry that support or denies commercial opportunity; and the audience who receive, interpret and support (or decry) the vision represented on screen. The Politics of Insects provides an opportunity to explore Cronenberg's films in relation to each other in terms of their thematic continuity, and in terms of their relationship to industrial concerns and audience responses.
| Author | : Academy of Canadian Cinema |
| Publisher | : General Publishing Company ; New York : New York Zoetrope |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : |
Met bibliogr., filmogr., cred. - Ook aanwezig als: L'horreur intérieure : les films de David Cronenberg. - Paris : Éditions du cerf ; [etc.], 1992 - 258 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - 7e Art, ISSN 0768-1496 : 90 - ISBN 2-204-04125-4.
