THE CINEMA OF DAVID LYNCH
American Dreams, Nightmare Visions





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Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Introduction: American Dreams, Nightmare Visions by Erica Sheen & Annette Davison

1 The Essential Evil in/of Eraserhead (or, Lynch to the Contrary) by Steven Jay Schneider
2 David Lynch and the Mug Shot: Facework in The Elephant Man and The Straight Story by Joe Kember
3 Going into strange worlds: David Lynch, Dune and New Hollywood by Erica Sheen
4 Mysteries of Love: Lynch’s Blue Velvet/Freud’s Wolf-Man by Sam Ishii-Gonzales
5 Blue Velvet Underground: David Lynch’s Post-Punk Poetics by Nicholas Rombes
6 Laura and Twin Peaks: Postmodern Parody and the Musical Reconstruction of the Absent Femme Fatale by John Richardson
7 Twin Peaks, Weak Language and the Resurrection of Affect by Sheli Ayers
8 ‘In Dreams…’: Gender, Sexuality and Violence in the Cinema of David Lynch by Jana Evans Braziel
9 ‘Up in Flames’: Love, Control and Collaboration in the Soundtrack to
Wild at Heart by Annette Davison
10 Weird or Loopy? Specular Spaces, Feedback and Artifice in Lost Highway’s Aesthetics of Sensation by Greg Hainge
11 Beyond Boundaries: David Lynch’s Lost Highway by Anne Jerslev
12 ‘All I Need is the Girl’: The Life and Death of Creativity in Mulholland Drive by Martha P. Nochimson

Filmography
Bibliography
Index