{"product_id":"the-artist-as-monster-the-cinema-of-david-cronenberg-heritage-9780802038074","title":"The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg (Heritage)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePAPERBACK INCLUDES TWO NEW CHAPTERS David Cronenberg is one of the most fascinating filmmakers in the world today. His provocative work has stimulated debate and received major retrospectives in museums  galleries  and cinematheques around the world. William Beards The Artist as Monster was the first book-length scholarly work in English on Cronenbergs films  analyzing all of his features from Stereo (1969) to Crash (1996). In this paperback edition  Beard includes new chapters on eXistenZ (1999) and Spider (2002). Through close readings and visual analyses  Beard argues that the structure of Cronenbergs cinema is based on a dichotomy between  on the one hand  order  reason  repression  and control  and on the other  liberation  sexuality  disease  and the disintegration of self and of the boundaries that define society. The instigating figure in the films is a scientist character who  as Cronenberg evolves as a filmmaker  gradually metamorphoses into an artist  with the ground of liberation and catastrophe shifting from experimental subject to the self. Bringing a wealth of analytical observation and insight into Cronenbergs films  Beards sweeping  comprehensive work has established the benchmark for the study of one of Canadas best-known filmmakers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45276741009461,"sku":"ByrdShop_0802038077","price":241.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780802038074.jpg?v=1780562029","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-artist-as-monster-the-cinema-of-david-cronenberg-heritage-9780802038074","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}