David Lynch: Beautiful Dark

In David Lynch: Beautiful Dark, author Greg Olson explores the surreal intricacies of the director's unique visual and visceral style not only in his full-length films but also his early forays into painting and short films, as well as his television landmark, Twin Peaks. This in-depth exploration is the first full-length work to analyze the intimate symbiosis between Lynch's life experience and artistic expressions: from the small-town child to the teenage painter to the 60-year-old Internet and digital media experimenter.

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David Lynch: Beautiful Dark

In David Lynch: Beautiful Dark, author Greg Olson explores the surreal intricacies of the director's unique visual and visceral style not only in his full-length films but also his early forays into painting and short films, as well as his television landmark, Twin Peaks. This in-depth exploration is the first full-length work to analyze the intimate symbiosis between Lynch's life experience and artistic expressions: from the small-town child to the teenage painter to the 60-year-old Internet and digital media experimenter.

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David Lynch: Beautiful Dark

David Lynch: Beautiful Dark

by Greg Olson
David Lynch: Beautiful Dark

David Lynch: Beautiful Dark

by Greg Olson

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In David Lynch: Beautiful Dark, author Greg Olson explores the surreal intricacies of the director's unique visual and visceral style not only in his full-length films but also his early forays into painting and short films, as well as his television landmark, Twin Peaks. This in-depth exploration is the first full-length work to analyze the intimate symbiosis between Lynch's life experience and artistic expressions: from the small-town child to the teenage painter to the 60-year-old Internet and digital media experimenter.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780810881846
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 03/28/2011
Series: The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series , #126
Pages: 752
Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 8.70(h) x 1.90(d)

About the Author

Greg Olson is the Film Curator of the Seattle Art Museum. He has written on film for several publications including The Seattle Times, Moviemaker, Premiere and Film Comment. He has contributed to the books Vietnam War Films and Contemporary Literary Criticism. He is a board member of the Film Noir Foundation and a juror for the American Film Institute's annual 100 Years...100 Movies television programs.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments and Photograph Credits v

Introduction viii

Chapter 1 Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, 1946-1970 (The Alphabet, The Grandmother) 1

Chapter 2 Factory Child, 1970-1976 (Eraserhead) 53

Chapter 3 Burden of Flesh, 1976-1980 (The Elephant Man) 99

Chapter 4 Golden Sands, Heavy Heart, 1980-1984 (Dune) 143

Chapter 5 Night Town, 1984-1986 (Blue Velvet) 203

Chapter 6 Buzz Saw, 1986-1990 (Twin Peaks, Season I) 249

Chapter 7 Burning Love, 1990 (Wild at Heart) 303

Chapter 8 Our Schoolgirl of the Sorrows, 1990-1992 (Twin Peaks, Season 2 and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me) 341

Chapter 9 Head Like a House on Fire, 1992-1997 (Lost Highway) 395

Chapter 10 An Autumn Afternoon, 1997-2000 (The Straight Story) 457

Chapter 11 Road to Dreamsville, 2000-2001 (Mulholland Drive) 515

Chapter 12 Man of the World, 2001-2007 (DavidLynch.com, INLAND EMPIRE) 585

Notes 681

Bibliography 707

Index 715

About the Author 733

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