The Cinema of David Cronenberg: From Baron of Blood to Cultural Hero
David Cronenberg has become one of North America's most
respected movie directors. Since the early seventies, the
soft-spoken Baron of Blood has attracted widespread controversy
with a steady stream of shock--sex crazed parasites in Shivers
(1975), exploding heads in Scanners (1981), revolutionary flesh
technology in Videodrome (1983), mutating bugs in The Fly (1986),
car-crash scars in Crash (1996), and psychopathic bursts of gun
violence in A History of Violence (2005). This book provides an
overview of Cronenberg's films in light of their international
reception.
