Videodrome Images and Ideas for Class

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Videodrome (1983)

Dr. David Scott DiffrientSPCM 358: Gender and Genre in Film

(HISTORY AND THEORY OF CINEMATIC HO

(not for use without written permissio


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Videodromeis a first-person film(according to Cronenberg):

We get no information that

Max doesnt get himself


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We get no information that

Max doesnt get himself

The film moves far beyond the conventions

of identificatory protagonist-oriented

narrative to a submersion in the central

characters increasingly fevered and

disconnected hallucinations (William Beard)


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It is not just Max Renn whobecomes delirious, boundaryless,

fantastically beset it is the film

The film moves far beyond the conventions

of identificatory protagonist-oriented

narrative to a submersion in the central

characters increasingly fevered and

disconnected hallucinations (William Beard)


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How does the film begin


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summarize the films story


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Max Renn, CEO of Civic T


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Nicky Brand


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Harlan

Brian OBlivion,


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Barry Convex,

the head of Spectacular

a media philosopher


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Stereo(1969)


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Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg

Crimes of the Future (1970)Shivers(1975)Rabid(1977)Fast Company (1979)

The Brood (1979)Scanners(1981)Videodrome(1983)

Stereo(1969)


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a.k.a. Orgy of the Blood Par

a.k.a. The Parasite Murde

Stereo(1969)i f h


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a.k.a. Orgy of the Blood Par

a.k.a. The Parasite Murde

Stereo(1969)C i f h F (1970)


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Stereo(1969)C i f th F t (1970)

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with thf

Stereo(1969)C i f th F t (1970)


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The Brood (1979)Scanners(1981)Videodrome(1983)The Dead Zone (1983)The Fly (1986)Dead Ringers (1988)

Naked Lunch (1991)M. Butterfly (1993)Crash(1996)eXistenZ(1999)

after Videodrome, a critical Cronenshowcasing monstrous, predatory

Stereo(1969)Crimes of the F t re (1970)

Which moments stand out for the


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after Videodrome, a critical Cronenshowcasing monstrous, predatory

Stereo(1969)Crimes of the Future (1970)

Which moments stand out for the


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Are these moments unnecessarily excessiOr are they central and essential to the



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horror as a constructa monstrous patriarch



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Naked Lunch (1991)M. Butterfly (1993)Crash(1996)eXistenZ(1999)Spider(2002)A History of Violence (2005)


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Videodromeis a film of both bodies and

In terms of the films conceptual or philoscontent, which themes stood out as being t

profound or thought-provoking? Have thos

been broached in other horror films

the films political message/commenta


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helpless private individuals are being manipulapredatory corporate forces under conditions of

technological penetrations and colonization (Will

the media is ubiquitously intrusive, threatening


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helpless private individuals are being manipulapredatory corporate forces under conditions of

technological penetrations and colonization (Will

the media is ubiquitously intrusive, threatening


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the unified subject/self is revealed to be a false con


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Videodromeis a film of both bodies and

In terms of the films conceptual or philoscontent, which themes stood out as being t

profound or thought-provoking? Have thos

been broached in other horror films

in Scannersand powerf


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ConSec, is emilitary anddevelopmeconspirator

in Scannersand powerf

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ConSec, is emilitary anddevelopmeconspirator

a sinister flarge-scale engineering

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