Full Description
A Critical Companion to David Lynch builds on the vast debate of one of the most discussed and researched directors of the present era, with commercial and critical success across multiple mediums and genres. This edited volume provides a wide-ranging exploration of Lynch's films, practices, and collaborations, with nineteen original chapters examining themes including narrativity, aesthetics, artistry, sound, experimentation, metafiction, and patriarchy from the disciplinary perspectives of film studies, art studies, gender studies, literary studies, and philosophy. Lynch's entire thought-provoking oeuvre, spanning over fifty years, will be examined, including his shorts and films, animations, TV series, paintings, and commercials.
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
