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Advance Praise for David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials

“In David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials, Violet Lucca shakes up auteur studies with the same passion, originality and creative verve that the subject of her book has applied to his remarkable body of work for over fifty years. Clinical Trials necessarily reframes and resituates Cronenberg’s oeuvre as demanding we look inwards, to our own stories and experiences, which makes Lucca herself as much a key character in this book as Cronenberg himself. Part art object, part biocrit, part analytical filmography, Clinical Trials is the most exciting and authentic work of Cronenberg scholarship to date.”—Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

“Lucca writes with the perceptive skill of an academic but the engaging verbal style of a millennial journalist, and this is a visually arresting debut, filled with illustrations…A remarkable book, as intriguing and unique as its subject.” —Peter Thornell, Library Journal. (Full review.)

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About Me

My writing has appeared in the New York Times, Criterion’s The Current, Art in America, Film Comment, Sight & Sound, Caimán Cuadernos de Cine, Harper’s Magazine online, the Village Voice, and elsewhere. Some of the best of it isn’t on the internet (or was once online and is now only available through the Wayback Machine). Deal with this two ways:

See some selected work.

[Full bibliography, including print, coming soon.]

See what a real director said about my writing:

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