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9780252036934 Academic Inspection Copy

David Lynch

  • ISBN-13: 9780252036934
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Justus Nieland
  • Price: AUD $206.00
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  • Local release date: 14/05/2012
  • Format: Hardback 208 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Film, TV & radio [AP]
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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.
''A stunning piece of work. One of the most provocative, erudite, and elegantly written - not to mention persuasive - writings on Lynch I have seen. It is a much-needed volume and will contribute to Lynch criticism but its reach is much wider; it will signal the arrival of a significant voice to the field. This is the book.'' Akira Mizuta Lippit, author of Atomic Light (Shadow Optics)
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