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David Cronenberg

    David Cronenberg is a celebrated filmmaker, renowned as a principal originator of the body horror genre. His work delves deeply into human fears of bodily transformation and infection, where the psychological is inextricably intertwined with the physical. Throughout his career, he has masterfully navigated horror and science fiction motifs, often exploring the darker aspects of human desire and the corporeal form. His debut novel, Consumed, draws upon similar unsettling themes that define his visually compelling filmography.

    David Cronenberg
    Consumés
    Zebra Movie Tie-In: Videodrome
    Consumed. Verzehrt, englische Ausgabe
    Cronenberg on Cronenberg
    • 2014

      Consumés

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      3.3(96)Add rating

      Naomi Seberg et Nathan Math, photojournalistes à sensation de l'ère numérique, sont à la fois amants et rivaux. Ils parcourent le monde séparément, se rencontrant uniquement dans des hôtels d'aéroport ou par Internet, toujours à la recherche d'histoires spectaculaires, souvent sordides. L'affaire de Célestine et Aristide Arosteguy, un couple libertin et anciens professeurs de philosophie, attire particulièrement Naomi. Célestine a été retrouvée mutilée dans son appartement parisien, et son mari, disparu, est suspecté de l'avoir assassinée et cannibalisée. Naomi, accompagnée d'Hervé Blomqvist, un étudiant singulier, part à la recherche d'Aristide, ce qui la conduit à Tokyo. Pendant ce temps, Nathan est à Budapest pour photographier Zoltán Molnár, un chirurgien controversé recherché par Interpol pour trafic d'organes. En ayant une liaison avec l'une des patientes de Molnár, Nathan contracte une étrange maladie, la "maladie de Roiphe", et se rend à Toronto pour rencontrer le médecin qui a identifié ce syndrome mystérieux. Ces récits parallèles s'entrelacent dans une intrigue mêlant technologie, corps, impression 3D, philosophie, et explorant des thèmes sombres tels que la mort et le sexe sous toutes ses formes. David Cronenberg, cinéaste culte, continue d'explorer la noirceur psychologique et physique de l'être humain dans ce premier roman, en intégrant ses thèmes et son esthétique cinématographique.

      Consumés
    • 1997

      Cronenberg on Cronenberg

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      4.2(752)Add rating

      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.

      Cronenberg on Cronenberg
    • 1983

      Zebra Movie Tie-In: Videodrome

      The Nightmare World of It's Coming

      • 255 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      In the world that lies ahead of us all, reality and hallucination will merge and interchange. So when Max Renn saw the flesh of his stomach swell and redden as though a giant worm was moving beneath the skin, was that imagination—or reality? And when the skin split and the flesh parted like giant lips, soft and bloodied. When he could sink his fingers, his whole hand, deep inside, feeling and probing through the wall of his own stomach. As the juices, thick and warm, clung and sucked gently at his finger-tips, drawing him in. As the bile rose, hot with revulsion in his throat.... Was that a nightmare—or reality?

      Zebra Movie Tie-In: Videodrome