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Shivers

Title
Shivers / Luke Aspell.
Author
Aspell, Luke
Publication
Leighton Buzzard [UK] : Auteur, 2019.

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Description
106 pages : illustrations; 19 cm.
Summary
"Shivers (1975) was David Cronenberg's first commercial feature and his first horror film. In a modern apartment block, a scientific project to unleash the id results in the equation of passion with contagion and predation. Because the writer-director's imaginative landscape arrived in the genre fully formed, the unique forms of this début have often been overlooked or mistaken for shortcomings. Cronenberg's most comedic film until Map to the Stars, Shivers is also his most spectacularly unnerving, throwing more images of extreme behavior at us than any of his subsequent films; it remains, with Crash, his most disquieting and transgressive film to date. Luke Aspell's analysis addresses all channels of communication available to the 35mm sync-sound narrative feature, including shot composition, lighting, cinematographic texture, sound, the use of stock music, editing, costume, makeup, optical work, the screenplay, the casting, and the direction of the actors. Attending to form the better to see the film in its context, this tour of Shivers as "cognitive territory" takes in architecture, cultural context, critical reception, and artistic legacy."--
Series Statement
Devil's Advocates
Uniform Title
Devil's advocates.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number
MFLP (Shivers) 20-1703
ISBN
  • 1911325973
  • 9781911325970
OCLC
1074395430
Author
Aspell, Luke, author.
Title
Shivers / Luke Aspell.
Publisher
Leighton Buzzard [UK] : Auteur, 2019.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Devil's Advocates
Devil's advocates.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Research Call Number
MFLP (Shivers) 20-1703
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