THST 3530 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Incredible Shrinking Man, Nuclear Arms Race, Cold War
25 Oct 2016
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The gore and horror had a point to it showed the reality of the transition rather than todays horror genre where they add the gore for no reason. Cronenburg purpose of the gore losing aspect of civility with man. The incredible shrinking man (sci-fi film) theme of mutation bodily decay and that we are all going to die. Option is not show creature at all build the suspense combined with animal, made transformation more real when watching the phases of him changing helping to connect more to understanding the character. The process of decay not just showing these ppl in extremes but exploring. In the 50"s there were a huge popularity of horror, sci-fi & thrillers & the. The cold war era starting after ww2 key feature of cold war was the. Cronenburg wasn"t interested in theme of suspense so he showed in graphic. His past works the brud he reflected his own problems at the time within the.
