David Cronenberg
Subtitle: Author or Filmmaker?
Publisher: Intellect Ltd; Intellect Books; Intellect, The University of Chicago Books
Published: October 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781841501734
Subjects: Film theory & criticism; Individual film directors, film-makers; Novels, other prose & writers; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Film Criticism; Individual Directors And Producers; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Performing Arts/Dance; Canada; Film & Video - Direction & Production; Performing Arts / Film / Direction & Production; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Individual Director
Description: "David Cronenberg 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 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."--Jacket.