David Lynch Swerves : : Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire / / Martha P. Nochimson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Nochimson, Martha P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (295 p.)

Beginning with Lost Highway, director David Lynch “swerved” in a new direction, one in which very disorienting images of the physical world take center stage in his films. Seeking to understand this unusual emphasis in his work, noted Lynch scholar Martha Nochimson engaged Lynch in a long conversation of unprecedented openness, during which he shared his vision of the physical world as an uncertain place that masks important universal realities. He described how he derives this vision from the Holy Vedas of the Hindu religion, as well as from his layman’s fascination with modern physics. With this deep insight, Nochimson forges a startlingly original template for analyzing Lynch’s later films—the seemingly unlikely combination of the spiritual landscape envisioned in the Holy Vedas and the material landscape evoked by quantum mechanics and relativity. In David Lynch Swerves, Nochimson navigates the complexities of Lost Highway, The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire with uncanny skill, shedding light on the beauty of their organic compositions; their thematic critiques of the immense dangers of modern materialism; and their hopeful conceptions of human potential. She concludes with excerpts from the wide-ranging interview in which Lynch discussed his vision with her, as well as an interview with Columbia University physicist David Albert, who was one of Nochimson’s principal tutors in the discipline of quantum physics.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE CRITIC ON FIRE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. THE PERPLEXING THRESHOLD EXPERIENCE -- CHAPTER ONE. LOST HIGHWAY: ”YOU’LL NEVER HAVE ME” -- CHAPTER TWO. THE STRAIGHT STORY: ”AND YOU’LL FIND HAPPY TIMES” -- CHAPTER THREE. MULHOLLAND DR.: AN IMPROBABLE GIRL IN A PROBABLE WORLD -- CHAPTER FOUR. INLAND EMPIRE: THE BEGINNINGS OF GREAT THINGS -- AFTERWORD. A SUMMARY: LIVING LARGE AMONG THE PARTICLES -- APPENDICES: IN THEIR OWN WORDS -- APPENDIX I. FRAGMENTS FROM MY MARCH 18, 2 010, INTERVIEW WITH DAVID LYNCH -- APPENDIX II. EXCERPTS FROM MY INTERVIEWS WITH PROFESSOR DAVID Z. ALBERT -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FILMOGRAPHY -- INDEX