A critical companion to David Lynch / edited by Andrew M. Winters.
| Other author | Winters, Andrew M., editor. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Lanham : Lexington Books, [2025] |
| Description | 1 online resource (ii, 324 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
| Supplemental Content | EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Critical companions to contemporary directors Critical companions to contemporary directors. |
| Contents | Introduction : (un)interpreting Lynch -- Section I: Shorter Presentations of Sound, Narrative, and Metaphysics -- Sound comes first : understanding the music and sound design of David Lynch's short films / Reba Wissner -- Pataphysical narratives in Lynch's short films and what is David working on today? / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns -- Sense and significance in Six men getting sick / Zachary Vereb -- Narrativism and performativity in Absurda and Darkened room / Kristina Šekrst -- Reframing noir windows : the inward gaze of David Lynch's The Grandmother / Matthew Sorrento -- Section II: Feature Bodies, Aesthetics, and Love -- Openness from closure : creative emergence and embodied dynamics in Eraserhead / Peter Lang -- The beautiful tragedy of Lynch's The Elephant Man / Andrew M. Winters -- David Lynch constrained on Dune / Rupert Loydell and Kingsley Marshall -- The phonic-materiality of David Lynch's Lost highway / Osman Nemli -- 'My most experimental movie' : transcendental style and the art spirit in David Lynch's The straight story / David LaRocca -- Driving buicks to the moon : innocence and experience in Wild at heart / Kwasu Tembo -- Section III: Repetition, Gender, and Collaboration Beyond the Theater -- Past and possible lives in Inland Empire / David Sweeney -- 'It is happening again' : repetition and replay in the works of David Lynch / Adam Daniel -- 'A woman in trouble' : Twin Peaks as critique of patriarchal violence / Julie Hamilton -- How Twin Peaks : the return's Diane escapes : the plot in the pinnacle of Lynch's use of metafiction and entrapment / Donald McCarthy -- 'Tricks' : inside Lynch's Hotel room / James Jarrett -- Section IV: Overlapping Mediums Not Just for the Screen -- Necropolitical patriarchy and the Lynchian Koan / Matthew Grinder -- Innocence lost : constructions of childhood in The Alphabet and The Grandmother / Brandelyn M. Andres -- Wonder, weather, and coffee : Lynch and the sacred of the everyday / Zachary Sheldon. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 08, 2025). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Critical companion to David Lynch Lanham : Lexington Books, [2025] 9781666928105 |
| LCCN | 2024034711 |
| ISBN | 1666928119 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9781666928112 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781978783522 cloth (e-book) |
| ISBN | 1978783523 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |