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Atrocity Exhibition/Throat Sprockets
Author: Simon Sellars • Jul 20th, 2006 •Category: Ballardosphere, David Cronenberg, film, medical procedure
Thanks to TimC for pointing me towards this very positive review of Weiss’s Atrocity Exhibition film, published in Sight & Sound. Interestingly, the fellow who wrote that review, Tim Lucas, also wrote a novel called Throat Sprockets (1994), which was described thusly:
“The focused description of scenes, of the medical exactness of throat architecture recalls nothing so much as Ballard’s Atrocity Exhibition. It is frighteningly easy to visualise his film. (Parts were also originally published as a graphic novel.) The reference to Ballard is interesting. The decaying militarism of this book’s coda is straight out of Ballard’s work, while the climax seems torn from much the same vein of doomed inevitability that David Cronenberg has mined so well; the final image would have to burn out in the gate like Monte Hellman’s Two-Lane Blacktop“.
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