Networked David Lynch : Critical Perspectives on Cinematic Transmediality / edited by Marcel Hartwig, Andreas Rauscher and Peter Niedermüller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hartwig, Marcel, editor.

Rauscher, Andreas, 1973- editor.

Niedermüller, Peter, 1969- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lynch, David, 1946-2025--Criticism and interpretation.

Lynch, David.

Lynch, David, 1946-2025.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 268 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

<i>Networked David Lynch</i> is a multi-disciplinary reconsideration of Lynch's œuvre in the context of the challenges and opportunities offered by transmedia environments and networks of the twenty-first century. This collection builds on state-of-the-art-research concepts like video-graphic criticism and video essays to provide a fresh and important approach to any study of David Lynch's œuvre. As such, <i>Networked David Lynch</i> is an attractive entry point to current media theory and recent film history, appealing to cinephiles, academics, researchers, and students.<br><br>This multi-disciplinary reader provides immediate relevance to university courses focusing on modern film history and on current theory in film, television, and media studies. The scope of approaches featured in the book provides an informative basis for courses on transmedia and media convergence, sound studies, musicology, cultural studies, and American studies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Entering Lynchtown

Part I Approaching Intertexts

CHAPTER 1 Visits Paid to the 'Imaginary Museum of Musical Works': David Lynch and the Musical Canon

CHAPTER 2 Turn and Face the Strange: Changing Faces in the Cinema of Lynch

Part II Twin Peaks as Transmedia Network

CHAPTER 3 Singing the Body Electric: Myth and Electricity as Both Sides of a Metaphorical Coin in Twin Peaks: The Return

CHAPTER 4 The W/hole David Lynch: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

CHAPTER 5 'Is it future or is it past?' Visual Effects in Twin Peaks: The Return

CHAPTER 6 That Gum You Like Isn't Going to Come Back in Style: Twin Peaks 1990-1/2017, Nostalgia and the End of (Golden Age) Television

CHAPTER 7 'Two Birds, One Stone': Transmedia Storytelling in Twin Peaks

CHAPTER 8 The World Spins: Transmedia Detours and Cinematic Configurations around Twin Peaks

Part III David Lynch's Transmedia Aesthetics

CHAPTER 9 Tracing the Lost Highway: Mythical Topography in David Lynch's Los Angeles Trilogy

CHAPTER 10 Structures of Female Desire, Control and Withdrawal in Lynch's Cinematic Work

CHAPTER 11 Room to Meme: 'David Lynch' as Problematic and Self-evident Aesthetic Object in Digital Memes

Part IV Videographic Criticism of David Lynch's Cinematic Work

CHAPTER 12 Researching Audiovisually: Experiments in Videographic Criticism in David Lynch's The Elephant Man and Blue Velvet

CHAPTER 13 A Form that Keeps Unravelling: On David Lynch, Spontaneity and Organic Fluidity in Videographic Essay Production and Academia

Conclusion: Leaving Lynchtown

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Oct 2023).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474497091

1474497098

9781474497084

147449708X

OCLC:

1367266748