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David Cronenberg Information
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David Paul Cronenberg OC, FRSC (born March 15, 1943[2]) is a Canadian film director and occasional actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores...


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David Cronenberg Quotes
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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do. I don't think that the flesh is...


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Variety
David Cronenberg.(DOWNTIME)
08/15/2005: 364 words, approx. 1 pages
No director has chosen to base so many films on difficult, if not seemingly impenetrable, novels as David Cronenberg. He has woven story and throughline out of the hallucinatory mishmash "Naked Lunch" and found love and life in J.G. Ballard's difficult "Crash," to...
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Mosaic (Winnipeg)
The Canadianness of David Cronenberg.
06/01/1994: 7,629 words, approx. 25 pages
Filmmaker David Cronenberg has gained an idenity as a prominent Canadian artist through works such as 'Naked Lunch' and 'The Fly.' Cronenberg's films are characterized by a conflict against nature and the sense of omniscnience and control in his protagonists as well as a...
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The New York Observer
Thursday, September 13th
9/11/2007: 269 words, approx. 1 pages
Hey Viggo, Vat’s Dat? Canadian director David Cronenberg—who has truly made some cuckoo movies in the past (Naked Lunch, Crash, Spider)—makes an appearance after a screening of Eastern Promises. For those of us who have nursed a crush on Viggo Mortensen since he was the...
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The New York Observer
From Russia With Love For Viggo Mortensen
11/12/2007: 427 words, approx. 1 pages
Viggo Mortensen, who showed his junk in David Cronenberg's hit Eastern Promises, was presented with a "Rolling R" award for the best "Russian" performance by a Hollywood actor by RUSSIA! magazine. The official citation commends Mortensen for his "sensitive, multifaceted and authentic" portrayal of Nikolai,...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Andrew Parker
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In the following essay, Parker explores sexuality, AIDS, and national identity in Rabid. He theorizes that the horror genre and other “narrative systems” contributed to a popular conception about the nature of AIDS and about how it is transmitted. In addition he compares the struggle for male identity to Canada’s struggle for national identity.
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Critical Essay by William Beard
7,451 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Beard discusses Cronenberg’s work in the context of the debate on what English-Canadian culture is and means. He asserts that Cronenberg’s male protagonists mostly resemble “the long line of Canadian cinematic and literary unheroes and their pattern of failure, powerlessness and hopeless waste.”
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Critical Essay by Robert Haas
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In the following essay, Haas places Cronenberg within the tradition of the gothic narrative, and compares his “monsters” with those found in films of the 1930s.
 


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