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Agency and Imagination in the Films of David Lynch

Author : James D. Reid
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498555942
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Agency and Imagination in the Films of David Lynch written by James D. Reid and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agency and Imagination in the Films of David Lynch: Philosophical Perspectives offers a sustained philosophical interpretation of the filmmaker’s work in light of classic and contemporary discussions of human agency and the complex relations between our capacity to act and our ability to imagine. With the help of the pathological characters that so often leave their unforgettable mark on Lynch’s films, this book reveals several important ways in which human beings fail to achieve fuller embodiments of agency or seek substitute satisfactions in spaces of fantasy. In keeping with Lynch’s penchant for unconventional narrative techniques, James D. Reid and Candace R. Craig explore the possibility, scope, and limits of the very idea of agency itself and what it might be like to renounce concepts of agency altogether in the interpretation and depiction of human life. In a series of interlocking readings of eight feature-length films and Twin Peaks: The Return that combine suggestive philosophical analysis with close attention to cinematic detail, Reid and Craig make a convincing case for the importance of David Lynch’s work in the philosophical examination of agency, the vagaries of the human imagination, and the relevance of film for the philosophy of human action. Scholars of film studies and philosophy will find this book particularly useful.

David Lynch

Author : Reba Wissner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040095399
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book David Lynch written by Reba Wissner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Director David Lynch is best known for films that channel the uncanny and the weird into a distinct "Lynchian" aesthetic, in which sound and music play a key role: Lynch not only writes his intended sounds into the script but also often takes on the role of creating the sounds himself. This concise study explores what makes Lynch’s sonic imprint distinct, breaking down three different sound styles that create Lynch’s sound aesthetic across his films. Showing how sound offers new insights into the aesthetic and narrative work of Lynch’s filmmaking, this book highlights new dimensions in the work of a key American auteur and deconstructs the process of building a unique sound world.

Life Above the Clouds

Author : Steven DeLay
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438492138
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Life Above the Clouds written by Steven DeLay and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaving a promising career in academic philosophy to embark on a career in film, American director Terrence Malick has created cinematic works of art that are also deeply philosophical. His contribution to philosophy through a half century of filmmaking has become the focus of increasing scholarly attention. Inviting the reader along a journey of reflections at the intersection of film, art, and philosophy, Life Above the Clouds brings together an international team of contributors to present the most current and definitive statement of the filmmaker's work. Accessibly written and exploring films such as Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World, The Tree of Life, To the Wonder, Knight of Cups, Song to Song, and A Hidden Life, the nineteen essays herein will be of interest not only to scholars and students of philosophy, theology, film studies, and aesthetics, but also to anyone with a true love of film.

Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus

Author : Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190685433
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus written by Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in three weeks of creative inspiration, Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus (1923) is well known for its enigmatic power and lyrical intensity. The essays in this volume forge a new path in illuminating the philosophical significance of this late masterpiece. Contributions illustrate the unique character and importance of the Sonnets, their philosophical import, as well as their significant connections to the Duino Elegies (completed in the same period). The volume features eight essays by philosophers, literary critics, and Rilke scholars, which approach a number of the central themes and motifs of the Sonnets as well as the significance of their formal and technical qualities. An introductory essay (co-authored by the editors) situates the book in the context of philosophical poetics, the reception of Rilke as a philosophical poet, and the place of the Sonnets in Rilke's oeuvre. Above all, this volume's premise is that an interdisciplinary approach to poetry and, more specifically, to Rilke's Sonnets, can facilitate crucial insights with the potential to expand the horizons of philosophy and criticism. Essays elucidate the relevance of the Sonnets to such wide-ranging topics as phenomenology and existentialism, hermeneutics and philosophy of language, philosophy of mythology, metaphysics, Modernist aesthetics, feminism, ecocriticism, animal ethics, and the philosophy of technology.

Inner Views

Author : David Breskin
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inner Views written by David Breskin and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1997-08-21 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two years, Breskin interviewed seven of contemporary filmmaking's greatest directors--David Lynch, Francis Ford Coppola, Oliver Stone, Spike Lee, David Cronenberg, Tim Burton and Robert Altman. Here they discuss the role of women in their films, the relationship of politics to art, their styles and philosophies, and more.

Authorship and the Films of David Lynch

Author : Antony Todd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857721127
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Authorship and the Films of David Lynch written by Antony Todd and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new contribution to studies on authorship and film explores the ways in which shared and disputed opinions on aesthetic quality, originality and authorial essence have shaped receptions of Lynch's films. It is also the first book to approach David Lynch as a figure composed through language, history and text. Tracing the development of Lynch's career from cult obscurity with Eraserhead, to star auteur through the release of Blue Velvet, and TV phenomenon Twin Peaks, Antony Todd examines how his idiosyncratic style introduced the term 'Lynchian' to the colloquial speech of new Hollywood and helped establish Lynch as the leading light among contemporary American auteurs. Todd explores contemporary manners and attitudes for artistic reputation building, and the standards by which Lynch's reputation was dismantled following the release of Wild at Heart and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, only to be reassembled once more through films such as Lost Highway, Mulholland Dr. and INLAND EMPIRE. In its account of the experiences at play in the encounter between ephemera, text and reader, this book reveals how authors function for pleasure in the modern filmgoer's everyday consumption of films.

A Guide to Creative Writing and the Imagination

Author : Kris Saknussemm
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100053832X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to Creative Writing and the Imagination written by Kris Saknussemm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching creative writing for the multicultural, global, and digital generation, this volume offers a fresh approach for enhancing core writing skills in the major forms of Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Drama. A Guide to Creative Writing and the Imagination aims to provide students with organic, active learning through imitation and examples which not only emphasize writing and reading but look to other art forms for inspiration. This volume’s key features include: • Strengthening key underlying capabilities of what we mean by imagination: physical and mental alertness, clarity of perception, listening skills, attention to detail, sustained concentration, lateral thinking, and enhanced memory. • Taking direction from other art forms such as African American musical improvisation, Brancusi’s sculptural idea of “finding form,” key ideas from drawing such as foreground, background, and negative space—and some of the great lessons learned from National Geographic photography. • Incorporating techniques drawn from unusual sources such as advertising, military intelligence, ESL, working with the blind, stage magic, and oral traditions of remote indigenous cultures in Oceania and Africa. The work is intended for a global English market as a core or supplementary text at the undergraduate level and as a supporting frame at the M.F.A. level.

Memory and Imagination in Film

Author : P. Lombardo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137319437
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Memory and Imagination in Film written by P. Lombardo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Baudelaire's art criticism and contemporary theories of emotions, and developing a new aesthetic approach based on the idea that memory and imagination are strongly connected, Lombardo analyzes films by Scorsese, Lynch, Jarmusch and Van Sant as imaginative uses of the history of cinema as well as of other media.

The Cinema of David Lynch

Author : Erica Sheen
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781903364857
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book The Cinema of David Lynch written by Erica Sheen and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of one of Hollywood's most popular and critically acclaimed directors. Films discussed include 'Blue Velvet', 'Wild at Heart', 'The Straight Story' and 'Mulholland Drive'.

David Lynch

Author : Kenneth C. Kaleta
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book David Lynch written by Kenneth C. Kaleta and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prize-winning film director David Lynch is one of those unconventional artists who creates a world so off-beat and eccentric that it takes on its own hyperreality. Surreal and mind-bending, Lynch's film creations hypnotize the viewer with their hallucinatory, morally ambiguous depictions of violence, lust, and human degradation." "In this new study of David Lynch and his filmmaking art, Kenneth C. Kaleta has completed in-depth research to get close to his elusive subject, tracking down traces at such filming locations as Snoqualmie, Washington - where the hit television series "Twin Peaks" (1990) was shot - and London, England, scene of The Elephant Man (1980). Kaleta also conducted revealing interviews, including a conversation with a Philadelphia art school connection and the director of the London Hospital Museum, for insights into the strange mind and perception of the filmmaker." "Probing astutely into the techniques that make Lynch's fantasy good-and-evil world so riveting - and the director a natural heir to Hitchcock, Kaleta examines Lynch's deadpan vision of the grotesque and the unseemly - juxtaposed with the innocent and the lyrical - and looks at his creation of an intensely felt and amoral universe of overwhelming instinctual forces." "This study - the first full look at David Lynch - will provide much food for thought for anyone who takes an interest in contemporary film."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

David Lynch

Author : Greg Olson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810863715
Total Pages : 749 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book David Lynch written by Greg Olson and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008-09-29 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly 40 years, David Lynch's works have enthralled, mystified, and provoked viewers. Lynch's films delve into the subjective consciousness of his characters to reveal both the depraved darkness and luminous spirituality of human nature. From his experimental shorts of the 1960s to feature films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and INLAND EMPIRE, Lynch has pushed the boundaries of cinematic storytelling. In David Lynch: Beautiful Dark, author Greg Olson explores the surreal intricacies of the director's unique visual and visceral style not only in his full-length films but also his early forays into painting and short films, as well as his television landmark, Twin Peaks. This in-depth exploration is the first full-length work to analyze the intimate symbiosis between Lynch's life experience and artistic expressions: from the small-town child to the teenage painter to the 60-year-old Internet and digital media experimenter. To fully delineate the director's life and art, Olson received unprecedented participation from Lynch, his parents, siblings, old school friends, romantic partners, children, and decades of professional colleagues, as well as on-set access to the director during the production of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. Throughout this study, Olson provides thorough analyses of the filmmaker's works as Lynch conceived, crafted, and completed them. Consequently, David Lynch: Beautiful Dark is the definitive study of one of the most influential and idiosyncratic directors of the last four decades.

Lynch on Lynch

Author : Chris Rodley
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780571220182
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Lynch on Lynch written by Chris Rodley and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Lynch erupted onto the cinema landscape in 1977 with Eraserhead, establishing himself as one of the most original and imaginative directors at work in contemporary cinema. Over the course of his career, he has remained true to a vision of the innocent lost in darkness and confusion, balancing hallucination and surrealism with a sense of Americana that is as pure and simple as his compelling storylines. In this volume, Lynch speaks openly about his films as well as about his lifelong commitment to painting, his work in photography, his television projects, and his musical collaborations with Angelo Badalamenti.

Identity construction in David Lynch's Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive

Author : Ina Brauckhoff
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638060411
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Identity construction in David Lynch's Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive written by Ina Brauckhoff and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-06-11 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1,2, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia (Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia - Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia), course: Border Crossings: Constructing Personal and Social Identity in Film, language: English, abstract: In the two selected David Lynch movies a shared motif becomes apparent: the question of identity. Therefore I define border crossing as the crossing of a psychological border within a person making possible to live out different (part-) identities. Jeffrey in Blue Velvet as well as Betty/Diane in Mulholland Drive have two different identities, i.e. they are presented to us in two different roles, a psychological border crossing takes place. In either case the concepts of identity and identity construction which were current at the date of the movies’ origin are represented. Framing these concepts in relation to the time they were made it becomes clear that we are dealing with innovative groundbreaking ideas. Thus I compare the films relating to how they express identity construction and the therewith combined border crossing. Hereupon I will relate this analysis to the history of identity to make clear in which sense the dealing with the identity discourse is innovative in both of the films. Finally I will discuss the question if the presented border crossings are still border crossings today or if they have already become habits. To find an answer I will classify the movies within the film history and explain how the film socialization determines the spectators’ readings. I suggest that both films despite all their differences actually tell the same story, only that there are sixteen years of (film-) history between them causing the different ways of narrating. A second border crossing becomes apparent, a border crossing between the two films.

The Films of David Lynch

Author : John Alexander
Publisher : Charles Letts (London)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Films of David Lynch written by John Alexander and published by Charles Letts (London). This book was released on 1993 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oneiric in the Films of David Lynch

Author : Raphael Morschett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book The Oneiric in the Films of David Lynch written by Raphael Morschett and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Oneiric in the Films of David Lynch is the first systematic book-length study to explore the nature and function of dreams in David Lynch's different phases and audio-visual formats. It shows that, over the course of 50 years, Lynch has developed a cinematic aesthetics of the oneiric ? an ensemble of four dream-related dimensions that unfolds its full potential in the dynamic interplay between sensory address and reflective medialization. The oneiric in Lynch's films is of phenomenological, media-theoretical, and philosophical interest"--

Good Day Today

Author : Daniel Neofetou
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780997671
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Good Day Today written by Daniel Neofetou and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the films of David Lynch pose a radical challenge to conservative and absolutist ideologies.

David Lynch

Author : Colin Odell
Publisher : Oldacastle Books
ISBN 13 : 1842433822
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book David Lynch written by Colin Odell and published by Oldacastle Books. This book was released on 2007-10-28 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.