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The Philosophy of David Cronenberg
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The Philosophy of David Cronenberg, 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 Eas, The Philosophy of David Cronenberg
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  • The Philosophy of David Cronenberg
  • Written by author Simon Riches
  • Published by University Press of Kentucky, 4/20/2012
  • 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 Eas
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Introduction Simon Riches 1

Part 1 Body Horror and Bodily Transformation

The Fly and the Human: Ironies of Disgust Colin McGinn 9

Tragedy and Terrible Beauty in A History of Violence and Eastern Promises Cynthia Freeland 24

Cronenberg as Scientist: Antiessentialism, Sex as Remixing, and the View from Nowhere Peter Ludlow 36

What Happens to Brundle? Problems of Teleportation and Personal Identity in The Fly Paul F. Snowdon 53

Part 2 Psychology, Skepticism, and the Self

eXistenZial Angst Duncan Pritchard 69

"Freaks of Nature": Extrasensory Perception and the Paranormal in the Films of David Cronenberg Keith Allen 77

Deception and Disorder: Unraveling Cronenberg's Divided Minds Simon Riches 91

Psychological Determinism in the Films of David Cronenberg Daniel Shaw 113

Self-Creation, Identity, and Authenticity: A Study of A History of Violence and Eastern Promises Daniel Moseley 125

Part 3 Words and Worldviews

The Fiction of Truth in Fiction: Some Reflections on Semantics and eXistenZ Graham Stevens 143

Re(ct)ifying Empty Speech: Cronenberg and the Problem of the First Person Brook W. R. Pearson 155

The Politics of Mad Science in The Fly and Dead Ringers R. Barton Palmer 175

From "Impassioned Morality" to "Bloodless Agnosticism": A Philosophy of David Cronenberg through the Burroughs/Ballard Axis Jones Irwin 197

List of Contributors 217

Index 221


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