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The Passion of David Lynch
Wild at Heart in Hollywood
Martha P. Nochimson (Author)
9780292755659
Paperback / softback, published 1 November 1997
288 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.426 kg
Filmmaker David Lynch asserts that when he is directing, ninety percent of the time he doesn't know what he is doing. To understand Lynch's films, Martha Nochimson believes, requires a similar method of being open to the subconscious, of resisting the logical reductiveness of language. In this innovative book, she draws on these strategies to offer close readings of Lynch's films, informed by unprecedented, in-depth interviews with Lynch himself. Nochimson begins with a look at Lynch's visual influences-Jackson Pollock, Francis Bacon, and Edward Hopper-and his links to Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles, then moves into the heart of her study, in-depth analyses of Lynch's films and television productions. These include Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Dune, The Elephant Man, Eraserhead, The Grandmother, The Alphabet, and Lynch's most recent, Lost Highway. Nochimson's interpretations explode previous misconceptions of Lynch as a deviant filmmaker and misogynist. Instead, she shows how he subverts traditional Hollywood gender roles to offer an optimistic view that love and human connection are really possible.
I Just Met the Good Witch"
: Wild at Heart
The Magician Longs to See"
: Twin Peaks
Seeing Something That Was Always Hidden"
: Blue Velvet
The Stream Flows, the Wind Blows"
: Dune, The Elephant Man
Please Remember, You Are Dealing with a Human Form"
: Six Men Getting Sick, Eraserhead, The Grandmother, and The Alphabet
If You Are Falling in Space"
: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me