Tag: movies
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The Cinema of David Lynch: American Dreams, Nightmare Visions
The Cinema of David Lynch: American Dreams, Nightmare Visions announces itself, even before the first sentence of its introduction, as a volume intent on mirroring the director’s own “double exposure” of American optimism and subterranean dread. In the editors’ opening pages, Buck Wolf’s anecdote about Lynch’s mutilated fibreglass cow—refused a place in New York’s civic…
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The Oneiric in the Films of David Lynch: A Phenomenological Approach
The Oneiric in the Films of David Lynch: A Phenomenological Approach by Raphael Morschett is an ambitious, erudite, and rigorously detailed analysis of the unique dreamlike matrix that underpins the cinematic oeuvre of David Lynch, an auteur whose work has long been synonymous with the enigmatic and the surreal. In this study, Morschett makes a…
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The Philosophy of David Lynch
From the opening pages that invoke the dreamy strangeness of Twin Peaks to the concluding reflections on the nightmarish recesses of Inland Empire, The Philosophy of David Lynch by William J. Devlin and Shai Biderman plunges into the depths of one of cinema’s most mystifying auteurs with an unprecedented degree of rigor. In doing so,…
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David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries
David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries by Anne Jerslev offers a strikingly comprehensive and original exploration of David Lynch’s multifaceted oeuvre, illuminating how this celebrated artist-director has, from the very beginning of his career, tirelessly tested and dissolved the boundaries separating film, television, photography, painting, drawing, music videos, commercials, and short experimental works. Through a thorough engagement…
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David Lynch: Sonic Style
David Lynch: Sonic Style by Reba Wissner offers an uncommonly illuminating journey into the resonant worlds that David Lynch conjures in both his films and television projects, exposing layers of auditory craft that reveal new pathways to understanding his distinctive aesthetic. From the earliest moments of Lynch’s filmmaking, sound has persisted as a living organism…
Simon Gros 