Sexual Devouring : The Desiring-Production of the Subversive Undead in David Cronenberg’s Shivers

Authors

ČAPEK Jan

Year of publication 2018
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web http://pdf.uhk.cz/hkjas/
Keywords cultural studies; philosophy; Gilles Deleuze; Félix Guattari; David Cronenberg; Shivers; film; horror; zombies; vampires
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Description This paper inspects David Cronenberg’s 1975 film Shivers through philosophical concept of desiring-production by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. The paper explores the connection and goes on to propose that a new, hybrid and subversive, type of undead is born somewhere in-between during the process of desiring-production at work in Shivers. The paper then explains the subversive hybridization as one of the typical perceptions of the Zombie and the Vampire cultural phenomena.
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