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Author Nieland, Justus, author.

Title David Lynch / Justus Nieland.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 190 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series Contemporary film directors
Contemporary film directors.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography.
Contents Wrapped in plastic. Interior design -- The art of being moved -- Organism -- Interview.
Summary Discussing the major films of this iconic director, Justus Nieland explores the range of modern design idioms that inform David Lynch's famously cinematic interiors, his work's acute attention to the shaping of affect in particular media environments, and its insistence on the strangeness of biology lived through media. Nieland resituates Lynch's experimentalism in three ways: first, by taking seriously Lynch's status as a surrealist, and by extension, exploring the status of surrealism in contemporary media culture; second, by placing Lynch's cultural production in a broader tradition of modern Romanticism; and third, by offering a sustained treatment of Lynch's aesthetics in the context of a specifically modernist and avant-garde tradition. By examining such major works as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire, Nieland provocatively argues that the romantic transcendental impulse in Lynch is an historical function of modernity, which, in its efforts to erect a divide between nature and culture, produces a longing for a host of transcendental "outsides" and yields all the monstrous hybrids of nature and culture that populate the Lynchian universe.
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Subject Lynch, David, 1946- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Lynch, David, 1946-
Criticism and interpretation.
Lynch, David, 1946-
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Nieland, Justus. David Lynch. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2012 9780252036934 (DLC) 2011034119 (OCoLC)747385705
ISBN 9780252094057 (electronic book)
0252094050 (electronic book)
9781283993593
1283993597
9780252036934 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
025203693X (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780252078514 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0252078519 (paperback ; alkaline paper)