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Violet Lucca

Violet Lucca is the author of David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials. She intermittently updates her newsletter, A Closer Lucca, and is working on her audacious return to podcasting.

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Mutation as Metaphor: Body Horror’s Visceral Transformations

Classics of the genre—including Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession and David Cronenberg’s The Fly—explore the gory extremes of corporeal experience.

By Violet Lucca

Songbook

Fassbinder and Kraftwerk: A Marriage Made in a New Germany

The iconic band’s 1976 song “Radio-Activity” finds a perfect home in the final episode of Berlin Alexanderplatz, providing a musical correlative to the film’s interrogation of national identity.

By Violet Lucca