Todd McGowan embarks on a provocative exploration of the weird and the fantastical in David Lynch's groundbreaking work. He studies Lynch's talent for mixing the weird and the ordinary to emphasize the strange nature of normality itself. Hollywood is ...
Todd McGowan embarks on a provocative exploration of the weird and the fantastical in David Lynch's groundbreaking work. He studies Lynch's talent for mixing the weird and the ordinary to emphasize the strange nature of normality itself. Hollywood is often criticized for distorting reality and presenting escapist fantasy, but in Lynch's films, fantasy becomes a vehicle through which the viewer is encouraged to create a revolutionary relationship with the world.
Taking the filmmaker's entire career into account, McGowan examines Lynch's play with fantasy and traces the political, cultural, and existential impact of his unique style. Each chapter discusses an impossible idea in one of Lynch's films, including the critically acclaimed Blue Velvet and The Elephant Man. The Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive are densely mapped. McGowan engages with theorists of the "Golden Age" of film studies (Christine Metz, Laura Molloy, and Jean-Louis Baudry) and with the thought of Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, and Hegel. Using Lynch's queerness as a point of departure, McGowan adds a new dimension to the field of author studies and presents Lynch as the source of a radically new interpretation of fantasy.
This book was translated by Mohammad Ali Jafari. David Lynch's cinema book is published by Phoenix Publishing House.
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