Agency And Imagination In The Films Of David Lynch

Author : James D. Reid,Candace R. Craig
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498555944

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Agency and Imagination in the Films of David Lynch by James D. Reid,Candace R. Craig Pdf

Agency and Imagination in the Films of David Lynch: Philosophical Perspectives offers a sustained philosophical interpretation of the filmmaker’s work in light of classic and contemporary discussions of human agency and the complex relations between our capacity to act and our ability to imagine. With the help of the pathological characters that so often leave their unforgettable mark on Lynch’s films, this book reveals several important ways in which human beings fail to achieve fuller embodiments of agency or seek substitute satisfactions in spaces of fantasy. In keeping with Lynch’s penchant for unconventional narrative techniques, James D. Reid and Candace R. Craig explore the possibility, scope, and limits of the very idea of agency itself and what it might be like to renounce concepts of agency altogether in the interpretation and depiction of human life. In a series of interlocking readings of eight feature-length films and Twin Peaks: The Return that combine suggestive philosophical analysis with close attention to cinematic detail, Reid and Craig make a convincing case for the importance of David Lynch’s work in the philosophical examination of agency, the vagaries of the human imagination, and the relevance of film for the philosophy of human action. Scholars of film studies and philosophy will find this book particularly useful.

Author : Reba Wissner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781040095393

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David Lynch by Reba Wissner Pdf

Director David Lynch is best known for films that channel the uncanny and the weird into a distinct "Lynchian" aesthetic, in which sound and music play a key role: Lynch not only writes his intended sounds into the script but also often takes on the role of creating the sounds himself. This concise study explores what makes Lynch’s sonic imprint distinct, breaking down three different sound styles that create Lynch’s sound aesthetic across his films. Showing how sound offers new insights into the aesthetic and narrative work of Lynch’s filmmaking, this book highlights new dimensions in the work of a key American auteur and deconstructs the process of building a unique sound world.

Author : Steven DeLay
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438492131

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Life Above the Clouds by Steven DeLay Pdf

Leaving a promising career in academic philosophy to embark on a career in film, American director Terrence Malick has created cinematic works of art that are also deeply philosophical. His contribution to philosophy through a half century of filmmaking has become the focus of increasing scholarly attention. Inviting the reader along a journey of reflections at the intersection of film, art, and philosophy, Life Above the Clouds brings together an international team of contributors to present the most current and definitive statement of the filmmaker's work. Accessibly written and exploring films such as Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World, The Tree of Life, To the Wonder, Knight of Cups, Song to Song, and A Hidden Life, the nineteen essays herein will be of interest not only to scholars and students of philosophy, theology, film studies, and aesthetics, but also to anyone with a true love of film.

Author : Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge,Luke Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190685430

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Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus by Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge,Luke Fischer Pdf

Written in three weeks of creative inspiration, Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus (1923) is well known for its enigmatic power and lyrical intensity. The essays in this volume forge a new path in illuminating the philosophical significance of this late masterpiece. Contributions illustrate the unique character and importance of the Sonnets, their philosophical import, as well as their significant connections to the Duino Elegies (completed in the same period). The volume features eight essays by philosophers, literary critics, and Rilke scholars, which approach a number of the central themes and motifs of the Sonnets as well as the significance of their formal and technical qualities. An introductory essay (co-authored by the editors) situates the book in the context of philosophical poetics, the reception of Rilke as a philosophical poet, and the place of the Sonnets in Rilke's oeuvre. Above all, this volume's premise is that an interdisciplinary approach to poetry and, more specifically, to Rilke's Sonnets, can facilitate crucial insights with the potential to expand the horizons of philosophy and criticism. Essays elucidate the relevance of the Sonnets to such wide-ranging topics as phenomenology and existentialism, hermeneutics and philosophy of language, philosophy of mythology, metaphysics, Modernist aesthetics, feminism, ecocriticism, animal ethics, and the philosophy of technology.

Author : Antony Todd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857721129

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Authorship and the Films of David Lynch by Antony Todd Pdf

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 essence have shaped receptions of Lynch's films. It is also the first book to approach David Lynch as a figure composed through language, history and text. Tracing the development of Lynch's career from cult obscurity with Eraserhead, to star auteur through the release of Blue Velvet, and TV phenomenon Twin Peaks, Antony 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 and Twin Peaks: Fire 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 at play in the encounter between ephemera, text and reader, this book reveals how authors function for pleasure in the modern filmgoer's everyday consumption of films.

Author : Kris Saknussemm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000538328

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A Guide to Creative Writing and the Imagination by Kris Saknussemm Pdf

Teaching creative writing for the multicultural, global, and digital generation, this volume offers a fresh approach for enhancing core writing skills in the major forms of Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Drama. A Guide to Creative Writing and the Imagination aims to provide students with organic, active learning through imitation and examples which not only emphasize writing and reading but look to other art forms for inspiration. This volume’s key features include: • Strengthening key underlying capabilities of what we mean by imagination: physical and mental alertness, clarity of perception, listening skills, attention to detail, sustained concentration, lateral thinking, and enhanced memory. • Taking direction from other art forms such as African American musical improvisation, Brancusi’s sculptural idea of “finding form,” key ideas from drawing such as foreground, background, and negative space—and some of the great lessons learned from National Geographic photography. • Incorporating techniques drawn from unusual sources such as advertising, military intelligence, ESL, working with the blind, stage magic, and oral traditions of remote indigenous cultures in Oceania and Africa. The work is intended for a global English market as a core or supplementary text at the undergraduate level and as a supporting frame at the M.F.A. level.

Author : P. Lombardo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137319432

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Memory and Imagination in Film by P. Lombardo Pdf

Inspired by Baudelaire's art criticism and contemporary theories of emotions, and developing a new aesthetic approach based on the idea that memory and imagination are strongly connected, Lombardo analyzes films by Scorsese, Lynch, Jarmusch and Van Sant as imaginative uses of the history of cinema as well as of other media.

Author : Erica Sheen,Annette Davison
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 190336485X

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The Cinema of David Lynch by Erica Sheen,Annette Davison Pdf

This is a study of one of Hollywood's most popular and critically acclaimed directors. Films discussed include 'Blue Velvet', 'Wild at Heart', 'The Straight Story' and 'Mulholland Drive'.

Author : David Breskin
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997-08-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012114067

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Inner Views by David Breskin Pdf

Over the last two years, Breskin interviewed seven of contemporary filmmaking's greatest directors--David Lynch, Francis Ford Coppola, Oliver Stone, Spike Lee, David Cronenberg, Tim Burton and Robert Altman. Here they discuss the role of women in their films, the relationship of politics to art, their styles and philosophies, and more.

Author : David Lynch,Chris Rodley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 0571195482

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Lynch on Lynch by David Lynch,Chris Rodley Pdf

David Lynch erupted on to the cinema landscape with Eraserhead, establishing himself as one of the most original, imaginative and truly personal directors at work in contemporary cinema. He is a surrealist in the tradition of the great Spanish flm-maker, Luis Bunuel.

Author : Kenneth C. Kaleta
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015029202127

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David Lynch by Kenneth C. Kaleta Pdf

"Prize-winning film director David Lynch is one of those unconventional artists who creates a world so off-beat and eccentric that it takes on its own hyperreality. Surreal and mind-bending, Lynch's film creations hypnotize the viewer with their hallucinatory, morally ambiguous depictions of violence, lust, and human degradation." "In this new study of David Lynch and his filmmaking art, Kenneth C. Kaleta has completed in-depth research to get close to his elusive subject, tracking down traces at such filming locations as Snoqualmie, Washington - where the hit television series "Twin Peaks" (1990) was shot - and London, England, scene of The Elephant Man (1980). Kaleta also conducted revealing interviews, including a conversation with a Philadelphia art school connection and the director of the London Hospital Museum, for insights into the strange mind and perception of the filmmaker." "Probing astutely into the techniques that make Lynch's fantasy good-and-evil world so riveting - and the director a natural heir to Hitchcock, Kaleta examines Lynch's deadpan vision of the grotesque and the unseemly - juxtaposed with the innocent and the lyrical - and looks at his creation of an intensely felt and amoral universe of overwhelming instinctual forces." "This study - the first full look at David Lynch - will provide much food for thought for anyone who takes an interest in contemporary film."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : John Alexander
Publisher : Charles Letts (London)
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015033319396

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The Films of David Lynch by John Alexander Pdf

Author : Colin Odell
Publisher : Oldcastle Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781842433829

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David Lynch by Colin Odell Pdf

Internationally renowned, David Lynch is America's premier purveyor of the surreal, an artist whose work in cinema and television has exposed the world to his highly personalised view of society. This book examines his entire work, from the cult surrealism of his debut feature Eraserhead to his latest mystery, Inland Empire, considering the themes, motifs and stories behind his incredible works. In Lynch's world the mundane and the fantastical collide, often with terrifying consequences. It is a place where the abnormal is normal, where the respectable becomes sinister, where innocence is lost and redemption gained at a terrible price. And there's always music in the air. From the deserts of a distant world to an ordinary backyard, at the breakneck speed of Lost Highway or the sedate determination of The Straight Story, readers will experience amateur sleuths, messiahs, giants and dwarves, chanteuses, psychopaths, cherry pie and damn fine coffee. David Lynch is your guide to this other world... and this is your guide to David Lynch.

Author : Deb Verhoeven
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134504046

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Jane Campion by Deb Verhoeven Pdf

Jane Campion is one of the most celebrated auteurs of modern cinema and was the first female director to be awarded the prestigious Palme d'Or. Throughout her relatively short career, Campion has received extraordinary attention from the media and scholars alike and has provoked fierce debates on issues such as feminism, colonialism, and nationalism. In this detailed account of Jane Campion's career as a filmmaker, Deb Verhoeven examines specifically how contemporary film directors 'fashion' themselves as auteurs – through their personal interactions with the media, in their choice of projects, in their emphasis on particular filmmaking techniques and finally in the promotion of their films. Through analysis of key approaches to Campion's films, such as The Piano; In the Cut; Sweetie; An Angel at My Table; and Holy Smoke Deb Verhoeven introduces students to the passionate debates surrounding this controversial and often experimental director Featuring a career overview, a filmography, scene by scene analysis and an extended interview with Campion on her approach to creativity, this is a great introduction to one of the most important directors of contemporary cinema.

Author : Daniel Neofetou
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780997674

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Good Day Today by Daniel Neofetou Pdf

This book argues that the films of David Lynch pose a radical challenge to conservative and absolutist ideologies.