Psychoanalysis, as stemmed from Freud, brings the “unconscious” to the foreground of importance, adding value to those thoughts, feelings, etcetera, that are usually repressed. Film, as a mass entertainment, serves as a way for an audience to “experience” situations that they do not always have the chance to experience, but, to do so, relies on somehow pulling the viewer in so that they do not necessarily realise, while they are watching, that they are watching …showed first 75 words of 2058 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2058 total…states; “I’m interested in how the human body is being re-fashioned by technology.” The wounds, bruises, scars and tattoos depicted to audiences in the film serve to abject, rather than incorporate or elevate the look. Cronenburg has a strong interest in the abject; this is evident in Crash and The Fly. In R. Wood’s The American Nightmare, it is proposed that horror films of the sixty’s and seventy’s possess certain characterist