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
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
Single fatherhood threatens the multifaceted and often contradictory framework against which Korean masculinity is measured.
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.
A close analysis of the films Tokyo Gore Police and Meatball Machine which exposes a cultural identity crisis caused by Japan’s rapid and sometimes unwelcome Westernisation. By Jessica Pyle. As a country which has gone through many cultural changes in a relatively short period of time Japan has found itself in the position of having … Continue reading Tokyo Gore Police, Meatball Machine and the Consumption of Japan
Punk Academia. 