Hitchcock vs. Dead Ringers: Episode 3
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Doppelgängers. Emotions in extremis. Intimations of a slippery (bi)sexuality. These aspects of David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers are part of a broader 20th century tradition—Surrealism. It’s at this level that Alfred Hitchcock’s influence on Cronenberg is most evident, because both directors are master practitioners of this particular ism.
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