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Strange World of David Lynch

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Strange World of David Lynch

Ironic Religion from "Eraserhead" to "Mulholland Dr."
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Anyone who has watched "Twin Peaks" or sat through the dark and grainy world of "Eraserhead" knows that David Lynch's films pull us into a strange world where reality turns upside down and sideways. His films 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. In this way, his style places form and content in a perpetually self-consuming dialogue. But what do Lynch's films have to do with religion? Wilson attempts to answer that question in his book. To say that irony (especially of the kind found in Lynch's films) generates religious experience is to suggest religion can be founded on nihilism. Moreover, in claiming Lynch's films are religious, one must assume that extremely violent and lurid sexual films are somehow expressions of energies of peace, tranquility and love. Wilson illuminates not only Lynch's film but also the study of religion and film by showing that the most profound cinematic experiences of religion have very little to do with traditional belief systems. His book offers fresh ways of connecting the cinematic image to the sacred experience.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Religion of David Lynch; Chapter One: Eraserhead and the Darkness of God; Chapter Two: Blue Velvet and the Blessed Virgin; Chapter Three: Wild at Heart: The Quest for the Grail; Chapter Four: The Wasteland of Lost Highway; Chapter Five: Mulholland Dr. and the Dream Vision; Chapter Six: David Lynch's Nihilism.

Author Biography

Eric Wilson is Professor of English and Z. Smith Reynolds Faculty Fellow at Wake Forest University. He is the author of four books, including The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science, and the Imagination (Palgrave, 2000).
Release date NZ
July 26th, 2007
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Imprint
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Pages
176
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensions
216x138x20
ISBN-13
9780826428233
Product ID
1676074

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