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This edited volume brings together nineteen chapters that provide an up-to-date, original exploration of David Lynch's entire thought-provoking oeuvre. This includes analyses of his shorts and films, as well as his animations, TV series, paintings, and commercials.
List of contents
1. "Sound Comes First: Understanding the Music and Sound Design of David Lynch's Short Films," Reba Wissner
2. "Pataphysical Narratives in Lynch's Short Films and
What is David Working on Today?," Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
3. "Sense and Significance in
Six Men Getting Sick," Zachary Vereb
4. "Narrativism and Performativity in
Absurda and
Darkened Room," Kristina Šekrst
5. "Reframing Noir Windows: The Inward Gaze of David Lynch's
The Grandmother," Matthew Sorrento
6. "Openness from Closure: Creative Emergence and Embodied Dynamics in
Eraserhead," Peter Lang
7. "The Beautiful Tragedy of Lynch's
The Elephant Man," Andrew M. Winters
8. "David Lynch Constrained on
Dune," Rupert Loydell and Kingsley Marshall
9. "The Phonic-Materiality of David Lynch's
Lost Highway," Osman Nemli
10. "'My most experimental movie': Transcendental Style and the Art Spirit in David Lynch's
The Straight Story," David LaRocca
11. "Driving Buicks to the Moon: Innocence and Experience in
Wild at Heart," Kwasu Tembo
12. "Past and Possible Lives in
Inland Empire," David Sweeney
13. "'It is happening again': Repetition and Replay in the Works of David Lynch," Adam Daniel
14. "'A woman in Trouble':
Twin Peaks as Critique of Patriarchal Violence," Julie Hamilton
15. "How
Twin Peaks: The Return's Diane Escapes: the Plot in The Pinnacle of Lynch's Use of Metafiction and Entrapment," Donald McCarthy
16. "'Tricks': Inside Lynch's
Hotel Room," James Jarrett
17. "Necropolitical Patriarchy and the Lynchian Koan," Matthew Grinder
18. "Innocence Lost: Constructions of Childhood in
The Alphabet and
The Grandmother," Brandelyn M. Andres
19. "Wonder, Weather, and Coffee: Lynch and the Sacred of the Everyday," Zachary Sheldon
About the author
Edited by Andrew M. Winters - Contributions by Brandelyn Andres; Adam Daniel; Matthew Grinder; Julie M. Hamilton; James Jarrett; Peter Lang; David LaRocca; Rupert Loydell; Kingsley Marshall; Donald McCarthy; Osman Nemli; Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns; Kr
