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The Strange World of David Lynch: Transcendental Irony from Eraserhead to Mulholland Dr.

The Strange World of David Lynch: Transcendental Irony from Eraserhead to Mulholland Dr.

Wilson, Eric G.

Paperback

DirectorsFilm Studies

ISBN10: 082642824X
ISBN13: 9780826428240
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jun 1 2007
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.34 Depth: 8.68
Language: English

Anyone who has sat through the dark and grainy world of Eraserhead knows that David Lynch's fi lms pull us into a strange world where reality turns upside down and sideways. His fi lms are carnivals that allow us to transcend our ordinary lives and to reverse the meanings we live with in our daily lives. Nowhere is this demonstrated better than in the opening scene of Blue Velvet when our worlds are literally turned on their ears.

Lynch endlessly vacillates between Hollywood conventions and avant-garde experimentation, placing viewers in the awkward position of not knowing when the image is serious and when it's in jest, when meaning is lucid or when it's lost. His vexed style in this way places form and content in a perpetually self-consuming dialogue. But what do Lynch's fi lms have to do with religion? Wilson aims to answer that question in his new book, The Strange World of David Lynch.

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