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Title

David Lynch / Colin Odell & Michelle Le Blanc.

Author

Odell, Colin

Publication

Harpenden, Herts : Kamera, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Le Blanc, Michelle
• Le Blanc, Michelle.

Description

192 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 20 cm.

Summary

Internationally renowned, David Lynch is America's premier purveyor of the surreal; an artist whose work in cinema and television has exposed the world to his highly personalized view of society. Examining Lynch's entire body of work--from the cult surrealism of his debut feature Eraserhead to his latest mystery Inland empire--this book considers the themes, motifs, and stories behind his incredible works. In Lynch's world the mundane and the fantastical collide, often with terrifying consequences. It is a place where the abnormal is normal, the respectable becomes sinister, where innocence is lost, redemption gained at a terrible price, and where there's always music in the air. From the deserts of a distant world to an ordinary backyard, at the breakneck speed of Lost highway or the sedate determination of The straight story, readers will experience amateur sleuths, messiahs, giants and dwarves, chanteuses, psychopaths, cherry pie, and damn fine coffee.

Subjects

• Biographies
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Lynch, David, 1946- > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Biographies

Note

• Parts of this book have been previously published in: The Pocket Essential [sic] David Lynch / Michelle Le Blanc and Colin Odell. Harpendon : Pocket Essentials, 2000; cf. T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 187) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction: Through the Darkness of -- Futures Past 11 -- 2. Now I've Said My A,B,C -- The Early Films -- Six Figures Getting Sick (1966), The Alphabet -- (1968), The Grandmother (1970) 19 -- 3. Hi Ya Sonny, What've You Got There? -- The Amputee (1974), Eraserhead (1977) 27 -- 4. Life is Full of Surprises -- The Elephant Man (1980) 37 -- "5. The Weirding Way -- Dune (1984) 45 -- 6. You Stay Alive, Baby. Do it for Van Gogh. -- Blue Velvet (1986), The Cowboy and the -- Frenchman (1988) 53 -- 7. The Way Your Head Works is God's Own Private -- Mystery -- Wild at Heart (1990) 63 -- 8. This Must Be Where Pies Go When They Die -- Twin Peaks (1990), Industrial Symphony No 1: -- The Dream of the Broken Hearted (1990), Twin -- Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) 69 -- 9. So What Did The Fish Tell You? -- On the Air (1992), Hotel Room (1993), Lumi6re -- and Company: Premonitions Following an Evil -- Deed (Lumi6re et compagnie) (1995) 87 -- 10. Funny How Time Slips Away -- Lost Highway (1997) 95 -- 11. I Want to Sit with Him, Look Up at the Stars -- The Straight Story (1999) 103 -- 12. It'll Be Just Like in the Movies. Pretending to Be -- Somebody Else. -- Mulholland Drive (2001) 109 -- 13. Where is it That You Think I Went? -- Rabbits (2002), Darkened Room (2002), INLAND -- Empire (2006) 117 -- 14. The Clouds Come and Go Yet Something is -- Different -- David Lynch Productions and Acting Roles, -- Commercials, Music Videos and Production -- The Artist And Animator, -- Transcendental Meditation and World Peace 129 -- 15. She'll Never Go to Hollywood -- Projects That -- Were Never Realised 139 -- 16. Night Thoughts -- An Interview with Barry -- Gifford 143 -- 17. There's Always Music in the Air -- David Lynch -- and Sound in the Cinema 157 -- 18. Pretty as a Picture -- David Lynch's Visual Style 163 -- 19 Unlock the Dream, Solve the Crime -- Mysteries -- and Secrets 169 -- 20. Billy Was Halfway Between His House and the -- Sickening Garden of Letters -- Lynch and -- Surrealism 175 -- Notes 185 -- Bibliography 187 -- Index 189.

ISBN

• 9781842432259 (pbk.)
• 1842432257 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007531431

OCLC

• 85691783
• SCSB-12426939

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library