Authorship and the Films of David Lynch

ISBN: 9781848855793 出版年：2012 页码：192 Antony Todd Bloomsbury Publishing

This important new contribution to studies on authorship and film explores the ways in which shared and disputed opinions on aesthetic quality, originality and authorial essenreceptions of Lynch's films. It is also the first book to approach David Lyncomposed through language, history and text. Tracing the development of Lynch's career from cult obscurity with Eraserhead, through the release of Blue Velvet, and TV phenomenAntony Todd examines how his idiosyncratic style introduced the term 'Lynchian' to the colloquial speech of new Hollywood and helped establish Lynch as the leading light among contemporary American auteurs. Todd explores contemporary manners and attitudes for artistic reputation building, and the standards by which Lynch's reputation was dismantled following the release of Wild at Heart aFire Walk with Me, only to be reassembled once more through films such as Lost Highway, Mulholland Dr. and INLAND EMPIRE.In its account of the experiences encounter between ephemera, text and reader, this book reveals how authors function for pleasure in the modern filmgoer's everyday consumption of films.