This book distinguishes itself from earlier books on David Lynch by taking in-depth consideration of his entire oeuvre. Besides his films and the Twin Peaks series, David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries includes discussions of Lynch’s paintings and drawings, music videos, commercials, short experimental works, digital projects on the YouTube channel David Lynch Theater and the Internet documentary The Interview Project, as well as the exhibition The Air is on Fire, which Jerslev regards as one of Lynch’s main works. David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries offers a view of Lynch’s total work, in which one medium or genre is no more important than the other. It discusses the ways in which Lynch has worked throughout his career with different art forms and has right from the start experimented with the blurring of boundaries between media and genres. And it discusses ways Lynch creates atmospheres by different audio-visual and visual means.
Author(s): Anne Jerslev
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 335
City: Cham
Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
What This Book Is and What It Is Not
The Blurring of Boundaries
The Chapters
Chapter 2: Lynchian Atmospheres: About and Around The Air Is on Fire (2007): An Installational Exhibition
The Lynch Exhibition at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, France
Intermediality
This Man Was Shot 0.9502 Seconds Ago (2004)22
An Installational Exhibition
Atmospheres and Lynchian Atmospheres
Atmospheric Film Spaces in Lynch
A Contemporary Total Media Work
Chapter 3: David Lynch and Time: Textures of Ageing
Textures, Abstractions, Transformations
Textures of Ageing—Abandoned Factory Photography and Snowmen
Textures of Ageing—Alvin’s Face in The Straight Story
Textures of Ageing in Twin Peaks: The Return
The Death of Margaret Lanterman
The Ghost of Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks: The Return
“Meanwhile”
Chapter 4: David Lynch and the Digital
“Digital is Here”
Interview Project—An i-doc
The Website
Meetings
Having Been There—“Indexical Traces”
Traces of Time Passing
The Post-perspectival and Post-cinematic: Screens and Time in INLAND EMPIRE
A World of Digital Screens
The Film
“Some Newer Media Form”: Transgressing the Boundaries between Media
The Digital Event
Screens and Surveillance
Two Different Digital Works
Chapter 5: David Lynch and Visual Noise
Visual Noise
Visual Noise: Short Experimental Films
Visual Noise in Lady Blue Shanghai
David Lynch and Commercials
Lady Blue Shanghai
Visual Noise in Crazy Clown Time and I Have a Radio
Chapter 6: David Lynch and the Fragment
“I Always Go by Ideas”
The Fragment in Theory
The “Dance for Freedom” Fragment and the “Dying Girl” Fragment in Wild at Heart
Four Kinds of Fragments
The “Las Vegas” Fragment
The “Floating Cube” Fragment in Twin Peaks: The Return, Episode 3
Veiling Fragments
Spectacle Fragments
Chapter 7: David Lynch and Fear: The Uncanny and the Sublime
The Uncanny—in Freud and in Lynch
Freud and The Sandman
“Home”
The Sublime
The White Sands Atomic Bomb Explosion in Twin Peaks: The Return, Episode 8
Chapter 8: Conclusion
The Blurring of Boundaries—Again
Worlds and the Blurring of Boundaries between Dream and Reality
Repetition and the Blurring of Boundaries
Blurry Images
Notes
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
References
Exhibition Catalogues
Index
