The Brood – The Monstrous Birth by Jessica Pyle In Cronenberg’s previous works there has been a propensity to use ideas of repression, female sexuality and use of the body to examine fears of the female body and particularly the womb and its abject nature. These concepts are also used to introduce nods to the … Continue reading Cronenberg III: The Brood – Look How You’ve Grown
A Sapphic blue “I” appears on the screen cutting through the space of the background.
Shivers is one of Cronenberg’s first feature length horror films and from the start the director was dealing with very visceral and bloody body horror images as well as strong sexual violence
David Cronenberg’s films often seem on the surface to be rather simplistic gore or horror films, for example The Fly in which Seth Brundle’s monstrous half-fly, half-human body
I'm going to have to admit that this was the first time I'd watched it having had only four TV channels as a child but I found myself watching a 90s cartoon that was referencing the animus, Camille Paglia and Susan Faludi and dealing with mental illness, trauma and Feminism in a really surprisingly nuanced way.
Doing a PhD that focuses upon creative art, I’m often asked: ‘What’s the point?’ In a world of terrifying injustice, in the face of unbearable pain, what good is art?
Thoughts on costume in performance art.
Batman’s third and fourth cinematic outings are frequently side-lined, and in the case of Batman and Robin is considered, by many poll found online, as the worst film ever made.
by Jessica Pyle Discussing how the films Quills and The Libertine challenge and alter the heritage film debate. A certain cycle of films made in Britain in the 1980s have been classified by critics as heritage films, films which use "an English, southern middle class past” and rich period detail and settings in order to allow middle … Continue reading Quills and The Libertine
The extent the Italian zombie and cannibal exploitation films use the zombie/cannibal as Other and other techniques to explore Italian political and social tensions of the time with particular focus on Cannibal Holocaust and Zombie Flesh Eaters.
Punk Academia. 