The Body in the Pool: Reflections on David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars

ABSTRACT

Placing David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars (2014) in the Gothic tradition reveals the ghostly and often overlooked mother-daughter dynamics at play in that genre, veering between the internalized fears of Gothic terror and the externalized evil of Gothic horror.

Notes

¹ Cf. André Green, “The Dead Mother,” in On Private Madness (London, UK: Karnac, 1986), pp. 142–173.

² http://www.avclub.com/review/david-cronenberg-draws-his-maps-stars-broad-stroke-215711

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Silke Arnold-de Simine

Silke Arnold-de Simine, Ph.D., is Reader in Memory, Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research is in memory studies and the museum, intermediality and media archaeology, early film and the uncanny. Her most recent book, Mediating Memory in the Museum: Empathy, Trauma, Nostalgia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), probes the political and aesthetic claims of shifts in exhibiting practices associated with the transformation of traditional history and heritage museums into “spaces of memory.” She is especially interested in the role of different media and art forms in the transmission of memory and in questions of their gendering.