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The Fly

The Fly

Paperback

Series: Devil's Advocates

Film Studies

ISBN10: 1911325426
ISBN13: 9781911325420
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Nov 6 2018
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 7.40
Language: English

It's not often that a remake outshines its original but David Cronenberg's reimagining of The Fly (1986) is one of those rare exceptions. Equal parts horror, science fiction, and romance, The Fly takes the premise of its 1958 original--a man unintentionally fusing with a housefly during an experiment in teleportation--and reinterprets the plot as a gradual cellular metamorphosis between these two organisms.

This book teases out the intricate DNA of The Fly and how it represents the personalities of many authors, including a distinguished history of Man-as-God tales stretching back to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818). Drawing from interviews with cast, crew, film commentators, and other filmmakers, Emma Westwood interlaces the making of travails of The Fly with why it is one of the most important examples of master storytelling ever committed to screen.

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