Networked David Lynch : : Critical Perspectives on Cinematic Transmediality / / ed. by Marcel Hartwig.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2023
• MitwirkendeR: Bakkan, Chris Aarnes,; Greene, Liz,; Hartwig, Marcel,; Hassler-Forest, Dan,; Müller, Jannik,; Niedermüller, Peter,; Outzen, Mads,; Rauscher, Andreas,; Schlösser, Lioba,; Stiglegger, Marcus,; Strank, Willem,; Verevis, Constantine,; Zywietz, Bernd,
• HerausgeberIn: Hartwig, Marcel,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 13 B/W illustrations 1 B/W tables 13 B&W images and 1 table

The first multi-disciplinary reconsideration of Lynch’s œuvreOffers multi-disciplinary approaches to transmedialityProvides new readings of David Lynch’s open œuvreExplores new methods and approaches in film studies, e.g. videographic criticismNetworked David Lynch 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 21st 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, Networked David Lynch is an attractive entry point to current media theory and recent film history, appealing to cinephiles, academics, researchers, and students.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.

Table of 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