Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1914889 in Books
• Published on: 2001-09-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 550 pages

Synopsis
David Cronenberg is best known for the controversial, shocking, or horrifying aspects of his work. His films seem almost obsessive in their scrutiny of the mutated or diseased body, sexual pathology, and radical scientific experimentation. Beard argues that the structure of Cronenberg's cinema is based on a dichotomy between, on the one hand, order, reason, balance, and stability and, on the other hand, obscurity, sexuality, disease, and the disintegration of self and of the boundaries that define society. Beard suggests that as Cronenberg evolves as a filmmaker, this dichotomy is increasingly associated with the opposition between the scientist and the artist, with the latter embodying the horrific freedom that abject transgression can afford, hence "the artist as monster". Beard brings a wealth of analytical observation and insight to the films of David Cronenberg, and this comprehensive work attempts to fill a gap in the study of one of Canada's best-know filmmakers.