"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"--
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 Lynchs 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. Lynchs entire thought-provoking oeuvre, spanning over fifty years, will be examined, including his shorts and films, animations, TV series, paintings, and commercials.
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This edited volume brings together nineteen chapters that provide an up-to-date, original exploration of David Lynchs entire thought-provoking oeuvre. This includes analyses of his shorts and films, as well as his animations, TV series, paintings, and commercials.
1. Sound Comes First: Understanding the Music and Sound Design of David
Lynchs Short Films, Reba Wissner
2. Pataphysical Narratives in Lynchs 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
ekrst
5. Reframing Noir Windows: The Inward Gaze of David Lynchs The
Grandmother, Matthew Sorrento
6. Openness from Closure: Creative Emergence and Embodied Dynamics in
Eraserhead, Peter Lang
7. The Beautiful Tragedy of Lynchs The Elephant Man, Andrew M. Winters
8. David Lynch Constrained on Dune, Rupert Loydell and Kingsley Marshall
9. The Phonic-Materiality of David Lynchs Lost Highway, Osman Nemli
10. My most experimental movie: Transcendental Style and the Art Spirit in
David Lynchs 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 Returns Diane Escapes: the Plot in The Pinnacle of
Lynchs Use of Metafiction and Entrapment, Donald McCarthy
16. Tricks: Inside Lynchs 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
Andrew M. Winters is professor of philosophy and Chair of Humanities at Yavapai College.