The debut novel by the iconic film director.Stylish and camera-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan are lovers and competitors – nomadic freelancers in pursuit of sensation and depravity in the social media age, encountering each other only in airport hotels and browser windows.Naomi finds herself drawn to the headlines surrounding Célestine and Aristide Arosteguy, Marxist philosophers and sexual libertines. Célestine has been found dead and mutilated in her Paris apartment. Aristide...

A monograph on the work of legendary writer/director David Cronenberg, master of body horror and cinematic provocateur behind films such as The Fly, Scanners, Naked Lunch, Eastern Promises, and Crimes of the FutureDavid Cronenberg's films have long enjoyed a cult following, pushing the boundaries of taste, blending high art with horror, and straddling the commercial and the cutting-edge. Here, the listener will be presen...

En esta primera novela del cineasta David Cronenberg, dos periodistas poco escrupulosos, Naomi y Nathan, se adentran en una turbia aventura que reúne muchos ingredientes de las películas que convirtieron al autor en uno de los directores de culto de finales del siglo XX. Aristide Arosteguy, un intelectual francés, ha sido acusado de matar y mutilar a su esposa Célestine, filósofa también, que llevaba tiempo obsesionada por la posibilidad de tener el pecho izquierdo lleno de insectos. Pero ...

From his early horror movies, including Scanners, Videodrome, Rabid, and The Fly—with their exploding heads, mutating sex organs, rampaging parasites, and scientists turning into insects—to his inventive adaptations of books by William Burroughs (Naked Lunch), Don DeLillo (Cosmopolis), and Bruce Wagner (Maps to the Stars), Canadian director David Cronenberg (b. 1943) has consistently dramatized the struggle between the aspirati...

Una parella de periodistes amb pocs escrúpols, la Naomi i en Nathan, s?endinsa en una tèrbola aventura que reuneix molts ingredients de les pel·lícules que van convertir David Cronenberg en un dels directors de culte de finals del segle XX. L?Aristide Arosteguy, un intel·lectual francès, és acusat de matar i de mutilar la seva dona, la Célestine, filòsofa com ell, que duia temps obsedida per la idea de tenir el pit esquerre ple d?insectes. Però el cadàver no s?ha trobat i l?Arosteguy ha fu...

For more than thirty years, David Cronenberg has made independent films such as Scanners and A History of Violence which aim to disturb, surprise, and challenge audiences. He has also repeatedly drawn on literary fiction for inspiration, adapting themes from authors like William Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, and Patrick McGrath for the big screen; David Cronenberg: Author or Filmmaker? is the first book to explore how underground and mainstream fiction have influence...

“An eye-opening dazzler” (Stephen King) about a pair of globetrotting, gore-obsessed investigative journalists whose entanglement in a French philosopher’s death becomes a surreal journey into global conspiracy from legendary filmmaker David Cronenberg.Stylish and camera-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan thrive on the yellow journalism of the social media age. Naomi finds herself drawn to the headlines surrounding a famous couple, Célestine and Aristide, Marxist philosoph...

Une fiche de référence sur Spider, un chef-d'oeuvre de David Cronenberg.Monsieur Cleg (Ralph Fiennes) a été surnommé « Spider » – l'araignée – par sa mère lorsqu'il était enfant, comme si elle avait voulu le doter d'une identité ambiguë et multiple, programmatique en quelque sorte de son avenir troublé et troublant. C'est dans ce labyrinthe que nous sommes invités à pénétrer.Les grands films méritent le même traitement que les grands livres. Sur le...

An illustrated monograph on the work of legendary writer/director David Cronenberg, master of body horror and cinematic provocateur behind films such as The Fly**,** Scanners**,** Naked Lunch**,** Eastern Promises**, and** Crimes of the FutureDavid Cronenberg’s films have long enjoyed a cult following, pushing the boundaries of taste, bl...

Après ses débuts dans la sphère underground de Toronto, à la fin des années 1960, David Cronenberg s’est imposé comme un auteur majeur capable de passer avec aisance du mainstream à l’expérimental, sans perdre sa singularité de cinéaste.Son œuvre met en scène des corps mutants, façonnés par la science et la technologie, comme dans La Mouche ou Crash, ou simplement victimes de l’environnement dans lequel ils évoluent. À travers eux, le cinéaste ex...

Author, blogger, and co-founder of The Supernaughts returns once agai with his unique take on the movies of David Cronenberg. From Shivers to Cosmopolis, Colbert examines them all with his unique perspective, just as he did with the work of John Waters.

Initially regarded as a cult figure with a strong following amongst sci-fi and horror film fans, Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg emerged as a major and commercially viable film director with mainstream hits such as A History of Violence (2005) and Eastern Promises (2007). With his unique ability to present imagery that is both disturbing and provocative, Cronenberg creates striking films, noteworthy not just for their cinematic beauty but also for the philosophical questions they raise...