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OverviewA key figure in the ongoing legacy of modern cinema, David Lynch designs environments for spectators, transporting them to inner worlds built by mood, texture, and uneasy artifice. We enter these famously cinematic interiors to be wrapped in plastic, the fundamental substance of Lynch’s work. This volume revels in the weird dynamism of Lynch’s plastic worlds. Exploring the range of modern design idioms that inform Lynch’s films and signature mise-en-scène, Justus Nieland argues that plastic is at once a key architectural and interior design dynamic in Lynch’s films, an uncertain way of feeling essential to Lynch’s art, and the prime matter of Lynch’s strange picture of the human organism. Nieland’s study offers striking new readings of Lynch’s major works (Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Mulholland Dr., Inland Empire) and his early experimental films, placing Lynch’s experimentalism within the aesthetic traditions of modernism and the avant-garde; the genres of melodrama, film noir, and art cinema; architecture and design history; and contemporary debates about cinematic ontology in the wake of the digital. This inventive study argues that Lynch’s plastic concept of life--supplemented by technology, media, and sensuous networks of an electric world--is more alive today than ever. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Justus NielandPublisher: University of Illinois Press Imprint: University of Illinois Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.376kg ISBN: 9780252036934ISBN 10: 025203693 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 28 February 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsA stunning piece of work. One of the most provocative, erudite, and elegantly written - not to mention persuasive - writings on Lynch I have seen. It is a much-needed volume and will contribute to Lynch criticism but its reach is much wider; it will signal the arrival of a significant voice to the field. This is the book. Akira Mizuta Lippit, author of Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) ""A stunning piece of work. One of the most provocative, erudite, and elegantly written - not to mention persuasive - writings on Lynch I have seen. It is a much-needed volume and will contribute to Lynch criticism but its reach is much wider; it will signal the arrival of a significant voice to the field. This is the book."" Akira Mizuta Lippit, author of Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) Author InformationJustus Nieland is an associate professor of English at Michigan State University, the author of Feeling Modern: The Eccentricities of Public Life, and the coauthor of Film Noir: Hard-Boiled Modernity and the Cultures of Globalization. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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