Matteo Cremonesi
Title: Glory and life to the new flesh!
Four texts on David Cronenberg

Edit by Magütt Publishing in collaboration with Phroom Platform
Editorial series: Art and Visual Culture – N° 1, Directed by Bruno Muzzolini
Graphic design: Federico Cacia, Francesca Ruberto, Marta Veronese
Translation: Federica Zotti
Language: Eng / Ita

ISBN 9791221041453

Unanimously recognised as the pioneer of body horror, David Cronenberg’s cinema gave birth to a genre that explores humanity’s fears of body mutation, infestation and contamination of the flesh in relation to technology. A cinema that interweaves literature, psychological and sci-fi elements with a deep sensitivity and attention to the body as a territory of the possible, a critical place from which to realise an experience as tragic and alienating as it is revolutionary. Through the analysis of the films Videodrome, Naked Lunch, Crash and The Fly, Matteo Cremonesi explores the Canadian director’s film corpus, attempting to define a semantic universe whose compositional elements retain a surprising relevance today, as they did yesterday.The texts, originally published on the visual culture research platform Phroom Platform between 2019 and 2022, have been collected, expanded and reworked here in collaboration with the same platform.