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O devir-corpo dos personagens de David Cronenberg

2016; Editora da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (EDIPUCRS); Volume: 23; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.15448/1980-3729.2016.2.21447

1980-3729

Rosângela Fachel de Medeiros,

Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies

This paper examines the extreme and visceral way as the Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg presents and investigates, in his films, the human body and the sexuality, and what social, cultural and artistic issues involved in this representation as evidence of the potential transformation of the body resulting from biotech advents and interaction with other bodies through violence or sex. The concepts of the grotesque, by Mikhail Bakhtin, and of the abjection, by Julia Kristeva, permeate and underpin this research, aiding the understanding of the configuration process of cronenbergian becoming-body. In this sense, it uses the idea of becoming, proposed by Gilles Deleuze, as contribution to the understanding of the constant transformation of these bodies into all aspects of becoming-body: becoming-animal, becomingmonster and becoming-machine.