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‘There is no escapism here’: Cronenberg scholar Violet Lucca on the auteur’s enticing repulsiveness, and how his most ‘offensive’ films are being reevaluated

Cedar Rapidian and University of Iowa alum Violet Lucca’s new book David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials steps past the usual canned controversies, and uses Jungian theory to structure fresh analysis on identity, potentiality and art’s place in human experience. For films often marked as being cold, flagrant or unapproachable, Lucca’s book is like a good friend next to you in a theater…

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