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The Philosophy of David Cronenberg

Author : Simon Riches
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813136040
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of David Cronenberg written by Simon Riches and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Consumed

Author : David Cronenberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416596135
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Consumed written by David Cronenberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While freelance journalist Naomi places her safety in the hands of a suspicious grad student to investigate a sexual philosopher's murder, her rival and lover, Nathan, contracts a rare STD while documenting a surgeon's controversial work in organ trafficking. A first novel. 75,000 first printing.

Cronenberg on Cronenberg

Author : David Cronenberg
Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780394222707
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Cronenberg on Cronenberg written by David Cronenberg and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick

Author : Jerold J. Abrams
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813137195
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick written by Jerold J. Abrams and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2007-05-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of fifty years, director Stanley Kubrick produced some of the most haunting and indelible images on film. His films touch on a wide range of topics rife with questions about human life, behavior, and emotions: love and sex, war, crime, madness, social conditioning, and technology. Within this great variety of subject matter, Kubrick examines different sides of reality and unifies them into a rich philosophical vision that is similar to existentialism. Perhaps more than any other philosophical concept, existentialism -- the belief that philosophical truth has meaning only if it is chosen by the individual -- has come down from the ivory tower to influence popular culture at large. In virtually all of Kubrick's films, the protagonist finds himself or herself in opposition to a hard and uncaring world, whether the conflict arises in the natural world or in human institutions. Kubrick's war films (Fear and Desire, Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, and Full Metal Jacket) examine how humans deal with their worst fears -- especially the fear of death -- when facing the absurdity of war. Full Metal Jacket portrays a world of physical and moral change, with an environment in continual flux in which attempting to impose order can be dangerous. The film explores the tragic consequences of an unbending moral code in a constantly changing universe. Essays in the volume examine Kubrick's interest in morality and fate, revealing a Stoic philosophy at the center of many of his films. Several of the contributors find his oeuvre to be characterized by skepticism, irony, and unfettered hedonism. In such films as A Clockwork Orange and 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick confronts the notion that we will struggle against our own scientific and technological innovations. Kubrick's films about the future posit that an active form of nihilism will allow humans to accept the emptiness of the world and push beyond it to form a free and creative view of humanity. Taken together, the essays in The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick are an engaging look at the director's stark vision of a constantly changing moral and physical universe. They promise to add depth and complexity to the interpretation of Kubrick's signature films.

David Cronenberg

Author : Mark Browning
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book David Cronenberg written by Mark Browning and published by Intellect (UK). This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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""" """""

Consumed

Author : David Cronenberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416596143
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Consumed written by David Cronenberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While freelance journalist Naomi places her safety in the hands of a suspicious grad student to investigate a sexual philosopher's murder, her rival and lover, Nathan, contracts a rare STD while documenting a surgeon's controversial work in organ trafficking. A first novel. 75,000 first printing.

Terrors of the Flesh

Author : David Huckvale
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476640785
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Terrors of the Flesh written by David Huckvale and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The horror and psychological denial of our mortality, along with the corruptibility of our flesh, are persistent themes in drama. Body horror films have intensified these themes in increasingly graphic terms. The aesthetic of body horror has its origins in the ideas of the Marquis de Sade and the existential philosophies of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche, all of whom demonstrated that we have just cause to be anxious about our physical reality and its existence in the world. This book examines the relationship between these writers and the various manifestations of body horror in film. The most characteristic examples of this genre are those directed by David Cronenberg, but body horror as a whole includes many variations on the theme by other figures, whose work is charted here through eight categories: copulation, generation, digestion, mutilation, infection, mutation, disintegration and extinction.

The Fly

Author : Emma Westwood
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800347111
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Fly written by Emma Westwood and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book teases out the DNA of David Cronenberg's "reimagining" of The Fly (1986). Drawing from interviews with cast, crew, commentators, and other filmmakers, Emma Westwood interlaces the "making of" travails of The Fly with why it is one of the most important works ever committed to screen.

The Thing

Author : Dylan Trigg
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782790764
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book The Thing written by Dylan Trigg and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the human body? Both the most familiar and unfamiliar of things, the body is the centre of experience but also the site of a prehistory anterior to any experience. Alien and uncanny, this other side of the body has all too often been overlooked by phenomenology. In confronting this oversight, Dylan Trigg’s The Thing redefines phenomenology as a species of realism, which he terms unhuman phenomenology. Far from being the vehicle of a human voice, this unhuman phenomenology gives expression to the alien materiality at the limit of experience. By fusing the philosophies of Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, and Levinas with the horrors of John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, and H.P. Lovecraft, Trigg explores the ways in which an unhuman phenomenology positions the body out of time. At once a challenge to traditional notions of phenomenology, The Thing is also a timely rejoinder to contemporary philosophies of realism. The result is nothing less than a rebirth of phenomenology as redefined through the lens of horror.

New Takes in Film-Philosophy

Author : H. Carel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230294855
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book New Takes in Film-Philosophy written by H. Carel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection displays a range of approaches and contemporary developments in the expanding field of film-philosophy. The essays explore central issues surrounding the conjunction of film and philosophy, presenting a varied yet coherent reflection on the nature of this conjunction.

Oxford Bibliographies

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (949 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Bibliographies written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Future Present

Author : Michael Pinsky
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838639245
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book Future Present written by Michael Pinsky and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To prepare for the Other: this is the mission of ethics. 'Future Present: Ethics and/as Science Fiction' fuses contemporary philosophy from Heidegger, Derrida, Levinas, and others with cultural texts preoccupied with the future arrival of an Other: science fiction. We peer through the lens of science fiction with the help of H.G. Wells, Walt Disney, 'Star Trek', David Cronenberg, Philip K. Dick, and many others, in search of a theory of ethics that leaves open the possibility of the Other and encourages empathy, which is necessary for survival in our multicultural world.

Cronenberg on Cronenberg

Author : David Cronenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571191376
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book Cronenberg on Cronenberg written by David Cronenberg and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews conducted 1984 to 1993.

Place of Breath in Cinema

Author : Davina Quinlivan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748664742
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Place of Breath in Cinema written by Davina Quinlivan and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study considers the locus of the breathing body in the film experience and its implications for the study of embodiment in film and sensuous spectatorship.

David Cronenberg

Author : David Schwartz
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496832264
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book David Cronenberg written by David Schwartz and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his early horror movies, including Scanners, Videodrome, Rabid, and The Fly—with their exploding heads, mutating sex organs, rampaging parasites, and scientists turning into insects—to his inventive adaptations of books by William Burroughs (Naked Lunch), Don DeLillo (Cosmopolis), and Bruce Wagner (Maps to the Stars), Canadian director David Cronenberg (b. 1943) has consistently dramatized the struggle between the aspirations of the mind and the messy realities of the flesh. “I think of human beings as a strange mixture of the physical and the non-physical, and both of these things have their say at every moment we’re alive,” says Cronenberg. “My films are some kind of strange metaphysical passion play.” Moving deftly between genre and arthouse filmmaking and between original screenplays and literary adaptations, Cronenberg’s work is thematically consistent and marked by a rigorous intelligence, a keen sense of humor, and a fearless engagement with the nature of human existence. He has been exploring the most primal themes since the beginning of his career and continues to probe them with growing maturity and depth. Cronenberg’s work has drawn the interest of some of the most intelligent contemporary film critics, and the fifteen interviews in this volume feature remarkably in-depth and insightful conversations with such acclaimed writers as Amy Taubin, Gary Indiana, David Breskin, Dennis Lim, Richard Porton, Gavin Smith, and more. The pieces herein reveal Cronenberg to be one of the most articulate and deeply philosophical directors now working, and they comprise an essential companion to an endlessly provocative and thoughtful body of work.

Cosmopolis

Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743244249
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolis written by Don DeLillo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Packer, a young billionaire asset manager, journeys across New York in his limousine despite a threat against his life, and the occurances of various events that are stalling traffic throughout the city.

The Naked And The Undead

Author : Cynthia Freeland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429964781
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Naked And The Undead written by Cynthia Freeland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horror is often dismissed as mass art or lowbrow entertainment that produces only short-term thrills. Horror films can be bloody, gory, and disturbing, so some people argue that they have bad moral effects, inciting viewers to imitate cinematic violence or desensitizing them to atrocities. In The Naked and the Undead: Evil and the Appeal of Horror, Cynthia A. Freeland seeks to counter both aesthetic disdain and moral condemnation by focusing on a select body of important and revealing films, demonstrating how the genre is capable of deep philosophical reflection about the existence and nature of evil?both human and cosmic. In exploring these films, the author argues against a purely psychoanalytic approach and opts for both feminist and philosophical understandings. She looks at what it is in these movies that serves to elicit specific reactions in viewers and why such responses as fear and disgust are ultimately pleasurable. The author is particularly interested in showing how gender figures into screen presentations of evil.The book is divided into three sections: Mad Scientists and Monstrous Mothers, which looks into the implications of male, rationalistic, scientific technology gone awry; The Vampire's Seduction, which explores the attraction of evil and the human ability (or inability) to distinguish active from passive, subject from object, and virtue from vice; and Sublime Spectacles of Disaster, which examines the human fascination with horror spectacle. This section concludes with a chapter on graphic horror films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Written for both students and film enthusiasts, the book examines a wide array of films including: The Silence of the Lambs, Repulsion, Frankenstein, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Alien, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Interview with the Vampire, Frenzy, The Shining, Eraserhead, Hellraiser, and many others.