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The Fly

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By (author) Emma Westwood

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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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Format Paperback | 140 pages
Dimensions 139 x 190 x 12.7mm | 158.76g
Publication date 06 Dec 2018
Publisher Liverpool University Press
Imprint Auteur Publishing
Publication City/Country New York, United Kingdom
Language English
Illustrations note 20 b&w illustrations
ISBN10 1911325426
ISBN13 9781911325420
Bestsellers rank 1,578,891

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Westwood brilliantly configures The Fly's legacy as both a remake that improves upon the original and is an audacious exploration of metamorphosis. * Film Stages *
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About Emma Westwood

Emma Westwood is a writer and film historian based in Melbourne, Australia. She contributes to a number of cinema journals, collaborates with film festivals, and appears weekly on the Plato's Cave film criticism show on the Melbourne radio station Triple R.
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