Cronenberg on Cronenberg

by David Cronenberg; Edited by Chris Rodley

• ISBN13: 9780571191376
• ISBN10: 0571191371
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1997-02-06
• Publisher: Faber & Faber

Summary

With films such as The Brood and Videodrome, David Cronenberg established himself as Canada's most provocative director. With subsequent movies such as The Dead Zone, The Fly, Dead Ringers and Naked Lunch, Cronenberg demonstrated his ability not only to touch painful nerves but also to invest his own developing genre with seriousness, philosophical dimension and a rare emotional intensity. Cronenberg on Cronenberg charts his development from maker of inexpensive 'exploitation' cinema to internationally renowned director of million-dollar movies, and reveals the concerns and obsessions which continue to dominate his increasingly rich and complex work. This edition, with an additional chapter, follows Cronenberg's work up to the creation of Crash.

Author Biography

With films such as The Brood and Videodrome, David Cronenberg established himself as Canada's most provocative director. With subsequent movies such as The Dead Zone, The Fly, Dead Ringers and Naked Lunch, Cronenberg demonstrated his ability not only to touch painful nerves, but also to invest his own developing genre with seriousness, philosophical dimension and a rare emotional intensity.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vi
Acknowledgements	ix
Foreword	xiii
Dr Martyn Steenbeck
Introduction	xvii
Chris Rodley
Embryo: The Earliest Years	1	(9)
Transfer: From Big Science to Little Films	10	(8)
Crimes of the Future: Obsessions and Avant-Garde Films	18	(16)
Body Talk: The Cinepix Years	34	(30)
New Flesh for Old: The Tax-Shelter Experiments	64	(45)
Unrequited Life: From Dead Zones to Dead Ringers	109	(48)
Bugs, Spies and Butterflies	157	(31)
Naked Lunch
M. Butterfly
Wounds, Scars and Twisted Cars: Crash	188	(17)
Filmography	205	(18)
Bibliography	223	(2)
A Note on the Editor	225	(1)
Index	226