The philosophy of David Lynch
By: edited by William J. Devlin and Shai Biderman
Series: The philosophy of popular culture; Philosophy of popular culture
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780813129914; 9780813133966
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / William J. Devlin and Shai Biderman; title: The World of David Lynch. "The Owls Are Not What They Seem": The Logic of Lynch's World / Robert Arp and Patricia Brace; title: Intuition and Investigation into Another Place: The Epistemological Role of Dreaming in Twin Peaks and Beyond / Simon Riches; title: The Horrors of Life's Hidden Mysteries: Blue Velvet / Sander H. Lee; title: The Thing about David Lynch: Enjoying the Lynchian World / Russell Manning; title: The World as Illusion: Rediscovering Mulholland Dr. and Lost Highway through Indian Philosophy / Ronie Parciack; title: Selfhood and Subjectivity: The Existential Drive toward Self-Understanding. All Roads Lead to the Self: Zen Buddhism and David Lynch's Lost Highway / Mark Walling; title: City of Dreams: Bad Faith in Mulholland Dr. / Jennifer McMahon; title: Constellations of the Flesh: The Embodied Self in The Straight Story and The Elephant Man / Tal Correm; title: David Lynch's Road Films: Individuality and Personal Freedom? / Richard Gaughran; title: Lynch's Zarathustra: The Straight Story / Shai Frogel; title: The Self Confronts the World: Issues in Ethics, Society, and Religion. "There's a Sort of Evil Out There": Emersonian Transcendentalism in Twin Peaks / Scott Hamilton Suter; title: "In Heaven Everything Is Fine": Erasing Traditional Morality / Jason Southworth; title: The Monster Within: Alienation and Social Conformity in The Elephant Man / Shai Biderman and Assaf Tabeka; title: Prophesies, Experience, and Proof: Philosophy of Religion in Dune / William J. Devlin.