Search results for "David Cronenberg"

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Metamorphosis as fantasy of the hybrid. Postmodern horror and the destiny of the human body in The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986)

2000

A diferencia del resurgir animista que orienta buena parte de las películas de terror modernas, La mosca (David Cronenberg, 1986) presenta una convergencia entre los temas que ocupan a la biología y la genética y las fantasías de despedazamiento del cuerpo humano. Utilizando como soporte la idea de metamorfosis, La mosca se revela como fa cara despiadada de esa otra fantasía de cuerpos ligeros y bien formaados de la que nos habla la publicidad. La tesis de este artículo consiste en sostener que entre ambas fantasías (del cuerpo ideal y de despedazamiento y descomposición) existe un secreto vínculo que orienta nuestra llamada sensibilidad postmoderna. Ce texte prend à sa charge la transforma…

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L'« Horreur viscérale » de David Cronenberg, ou l'horreur de l'« anti-nature »

2010

The author uses the films of David Cronenberg as a basis to study the relation between cinematographic strategies of fright and horror. The first are often based on an opposition between the on- and off-camera, while the latter seem to rely on the shot/reverse-shot technique. In this sense, The Brood (1979) provides an interesting shift from fright to horror. The author aims at understanding the term “body horror” which has been associated with Cronenberg's films from the start. The author defines it as the moment when matter does not signify before various discourses (scientific, aesthetic) endow it with a form of nature.

[SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteratureJudith ButlerDavid Cronenbergbody horror[SHS.ART]Humanities and Social Sciences/Art and art historybody[ SHS.LITT ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature[ SHS.ART ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Art and art historymatter[SHS.LITT] Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteraturehorrorClément RossetThe Brood[SHS.ART] Humanities and Social Sciences/Art and art historydiscourse
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David Cronenberg's Having to Make the Word Be Flesh

2004

International audience; Cet article part d'une remarque faite par Cronenberg dans un entretien où il dit vouloir « transformer le mot en chair ». La démarche créatrice que décrit le cinéaste, démarche en trois temps — écriture, mise en scène des corps et objets, et « mise en cadre » — est comparée à la représentation de ces étapes dans ses films, de sorte que la première conclusion à laquelle on arrive est que Cronenberg est, en quelque sorte, cinéaste malgré lui : un cinéaste qui se passerait de la « mise en cadre ». Aussi, la formule de Cronenberg, qui subvertit le texte biblique en inversant la création divine, apparaît comme une pique contre le littéralisme puritain qui habite le cinéma…

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David Cronenberg : une mission utopique

2002

This essay is meant as an introduction to the body of Cronenberg's work up to and including Spider. It is an attempt to analyze what Cronenberg calls his mission in aesthetic and ethical terms, Cronenberg having admitted to Serge Grünberg that he wanted to participate in changing contemporary norms by encouraging the spectator to see something beautiful when his initial reaction is repulsion. I argue that the utopian/dystopian aspect of the diegeses of Cronenberg's early films becomes a structuring element in his later films. I first examine Cronenberg's approach to the fantastique in Shivers and Rabid, with particular interest to the monster as a metaphor of the repulsive. In the later fil…

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