David Roche (International) assertion David Roche i(11791877 works by)
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1 Fault Lines in Under the Skin (Glazer, 2013) : An Ethics and Aesthetics of the ‘monstrous’ David Roche , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Horror Studies , April vol. 8 no. 1 2017; (p. 45-59)

'An adaptation of Michel Faber’s 2000 novel about alien invasion that updates the scifi horror tradition of the 1970s in an art-cinema mode, Under the Skin (Glazer, 2013) offers a stellar example of the ‘monstrous’ as both figure and form. Generally speaking, the interstitiality of the ‘monstrous’ demands strategies grounded in the disconnection between categories (image and sound, diegetic and nondiegetic), some of which have become horror movie clichés. Under the Skin is no exception. Its aesthetics of instability, correlated to a ‘monstrous’ figure that casts a defamiliarizing gaze on our world before attempting to ‘become human’, produces a complex subtext on contemporary alienation and identity politics, that puts the viewer in a position where he or she must both take moral responsibility for the categories he or she constructs (such as the ’monstrous’), and experience the mysterious physicality at the core of life itself.' (Publication summary)

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