Tag: Naked Lunch

  • Long Live the New Flesh: David Cronenberg’s Evolution

    Long Live the New Flesh: David Cronenberg’s Evolution

    A progenitor of a genre typically referred to as body horror, Toronto-born and world-renowned auteur David Cronenberg remains one of the most audacious narrative directors working in cinema. Citing literary influences as diverse and incendiary as Vladimir Nabokov and William S. Burroughs (Cronenberg adapted Burroughs’s Naked Lunch), Cronenberg’s films continually blur the line between corporeality and…