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Author:   Mike Miley (Loyola University New Orleans, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9798765102893

Pages:   288
Publication Date:   06 February 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Harmonics of the Tree Section I: “Read? Read What?”: Words 1. Eraserhead and “The Yellow Wallpaper” 2. “Let the Wild Rumpus Start!”: Blue Velvet and Children’s Literature 3. Lonelyhearts and Locusts in the City of Dreams: Lynch and Nathanael West Cruise Mulholland Dr. 4. The Water and the Well: Lynch and McCarthy’s Nuclear Media Hyperobjects Section II: “Let’s Rock!”: Music 5. David Lynch at the Crossroads: Deconstructing Rock, Reconstructing Wild at Heart 6. Tell Laura I Love Her: The Ballad of Laura Palmer 7. “I Put a Spell on You”: Cover Songs and Toxic Masculinity in Lost Highway 8. Lynch’s Old, Weird America: The Straight Story 9. The Mixtape Aesthetics of Inland Empire Conclusion: “This Muddy Bothness” Index

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In David Lynch’s American Dreamscape, Mike Miley presents a fascinating new approach to Lynch’s films, treating their intertextuality in a way that expands rather than restricts our understanding of them. Miley adroitly connects literary, filmic, and musicological perspectives in an analytical approach that will prove invaluable and accessible to scholars from many fields in their study of Lynch, one of our most idiosyncratic American filmmakers. Following Lynch himself, Miley’s book gives us more ‘room to dream’ around the filmmaker’s work. * Katherine M. Reed, Associate Professor of Musicology, California State University, Fullerton, USA, and co-editor of Music in Twin Peaks: Listen to the Sounds (2021) *

Author Information

Mike Miley is the author of Truth and Consequences: Game Shows in Fiction and Film (2019) and co-editor of Conversations with Steve Erickson (2021). His writing has appeared in The Atlantic.com, Arizona Quarterly, Critique, Literature/Film Quarterly, Music and the Moving Image, The New Orleans Review, The North Dakota Quarterly, The Smart Set, and elsewhere. He lives in New Orleans.

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