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Lynch on Lynch, Revised Edition

Lynch on Lynch, Revised Edition

David Lynch

Now fully updated, Lynch on Lynch describes the career of a cinematic genius who has continued to astonish filmgoers with the lovely and life-affirming The Straight Story and the luxurious dread of the Academy Award-nominated Mulholland ...
The Passion of David Lynch: Wild at Heart in Hollywood

The Passion of David Lynch: Wild at Heart in Hollywood

Martha P. Nochimson

In this innovative book, she draws on these strategies to offer close readings of Lynch's films, informed by unprecedented, in-depth interviews with Lynch himself.
Pervert in the Pulpit: Morality in the Works of David Lynch

Pervert in the Pulpit: Morality in the Works of David Lynch

Jeff Johnson

Filmmaker David Lynch’s work is viewed here as patriotic and Puritanical.
David Lynch

David Lynch

Justus Nieland

We enter these famously cinematic interiors to be wrapped in plastic, the fundamental substance of Lynch’s work. This volume revels in the weird dynamism of Lynch’s plastic worlds.
Good Day Today: David Lynch Destabilises the Spectator

Good Day Today: David Lynch Destabilises the Spectator

Daniel Neofetou

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

The Philosophy of David Lynch

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In The Philosophy of David Lynch, editors William J. Devlin and Shai Biderman have compiled an impressive list of contributors to explore the philosophy at the core of the filmmaker’s work.
David Lynch: the air is on fire

David Lynch: the air is on fire

David Lynch

A major collection of artwork by the respected movie director whose work includes The Elephant Man and Twin Peaks coincides with an Paris exhibition at the Fondation Cartier and includes pieces from a variety of disciplines that reflect the ...
The Cinema of David Lynch: American Dreams, Nightmare Visions

The Cinema of David Lynch: American Dreams, Nightmare Visions

Erica Sheen

CHAPTER TWELVE All I Need is the Girl': The Life and Death of Creativity in Mulholland Drive Martha P. Nochimson From his first feature-length film, Eraserhead (1977), David Lynch has manifested an intense interest in the female performer.
The Impossible David Lynch

The Impossible David Lynch

Todd McGowan

Todd McGowan launches a provocative exploration of weirdness and fantasy in David Lynch's groundbreaking oeuvre.
Law at Work: Studies in Legal Ethnomethods

Law at Work: Studies in Legal Ethnomethods

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Lynch, Michael, and David Bogen. 1994. “Harvey Sacks's Primitive Natural Science.” Theory, Culture and Society 11(4): 65–104. Lynch, Michael, and David Bogen. 1996. The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran- Contra ...
Bitter Waters: America's Forgotten Naval Mission to the Dead Sea

Bitter Waters: America's Forgotten Naval Mission to the Dead Sea

David Haward Bain

David Haward Bain. Maryland State Archives, Newport Historical Society, and Mystic Seaport Library. Thanks, also, to Dan Monahan, Superintendent, Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, and to John S. Lynch and John S. Lynch II. Finally  ...
David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland ...

David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland ...

Martha P. Nochimson

In David Lynch Swerves, Nochimson navigates the complexities of Lost Highway, The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire with uncanny skill, shedding light on the beauty of their organic compositions; their thematic critiques ...
David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland ...

David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland ...

Martha Nochimson

In David Lynch Swerves, Nochimson navigates the complexities of Lost Highway, The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire with uncanny skill, shedding light on the beauty of their organic compositions; their thematic critiques ...
David Lynch: Beautiful Dark

David Lynch: Beautiful Dark

Greg Olson

To fully delineate the director's life and art, Olson received unprecedented participation from Lynch, his parents, siblings, old school friends, romantic partners, children, and decades of professional colleagues, as well as on-set access ...
Popular Ghosts: The Haunted Spaces of Everyday Culture

Popular Ghosts: The Haunted Spaces of Everyday Culture

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22 “Lynch remystifies electricity,” writes Mark Allyn Stewart in David Lynch Decoded (Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2007), 108. 148. 23 See Smith, “ Hauntings,” 24 Early experiments with both telephone communication and auditory recording ...
Loving Literature: A Cultural History

Loving Literature: A Cultural History

Deidre Shauna Lynch

Lynch writes, “It is as if those on the side of love of literature had forgotten what literary texts themselves say about love’s edginess and complexities.” With this masterly volume, Lynch restores those edges, and allows us to revel ...
Mimesis: Lynch Architects

Mimesis: Lynch Architects

Patrick Lynch

Mimesis also explores the vital role that physical creative work and craft play in design, recovering the critical grounds for a poetics of Civic Architecture.The book also foregrounds Lynch Architects' collaborative practice with artists ...
David Lynch Decoded

David Lynch Decoded

Mark Allyn Stewart

Journey with author Mark Allyn Stewart as he travels film by film to let you in on the larger tapestry that Lynch is weaving and shows you how works such as Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Dr. are all pieces of a larger picture.
Lynch's Medical Laboratory Technology

Lynch's Medical Laboratory Technology

Matthew J. Lynch

Includes essential information on principles and basic theory without overwhelming detail.
Kevin Lynch. Individual Notables in Planning in the US and ...

Kevin Lynch. Individual Notables in Planning in the US and ...

Theresa Hayessen

Kevin. Andrew. Lynch. Kevin Lynch is one of the key figures in environmental design and behaviorism in the field of city planning and city design in the 20th century. He devoted his career to research, writing, teaching, as well as to consulting ...
Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to Twin Peaks

Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to Twin Peaks

David Lavery

This fascinating collection of essays considers David Lynch’s politics, the enigmatic musical score, and the show’s cult status, treatment of family violence, obsession with doubling, and silencing of women.
Be Happy or I'll Scream!: My Deranged Quest for the Perfect ...

Be Happy or I'll Scream!: My Deranged Quest for the Perfect ...

Sheri Lynch

My Deranged Quest for the Perfect Husband, Family, and Life Sheri Lynch. " Lynch cleverly captures the angst of child-rearing in this funny memoir." — Publishers Weekly It's the wacky, wonderful world of family and husband- management, ...
Hello, My Name Is Mommy: The Dysfunctional Girl's Guide to ...

Hello, My Name Is Mommy: The Dysfunctional Girl's Guide to ...

Sheri Lynch

Trust Dr. Spock, but listen to Sheri Lynch, who decodes the pitfalls of pregnancy and trials of new motherhood in this hilarious little book.
Hello, My Name Is Mommy: The Dysfunctional Girl's Guide to ...

Hello, My Name Is Mommy: The Dysfunctional Girl's Guide to ...

Sheri Lynch

Original. Trust Dr. Spock, but listen to Sheri Lynch, who decodes the pitfalls of pregnancy and trials of new motherhood in this hilarious little book.
Aging in World History

Aging in World History

David G. Troyansky

... edited by Caitrin Lynch and Jason Danely (NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2013). Michael David McNally, Aging, Authority, and Ojibwe Religion (NY: Columbia University Press, 2009). 3 Old Age in Classical Civilizations: From Asia to the.
Good City Form

Good City Form

Kevin Lynch

As in all of Lynch's writing, the theory flows from and leads back to specific examples and everyday realities. The final section of the book is concerned with applications of the theory.
Pennsylvania Archives

Pennsylvania Archives

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As I conceive that this evidence will be material in my Favour, I must entreat that a time may be appointed for examining this- witness and rehearing the case of JOHN PATRICK LYNCH. I THE COUNCIL TO JOHN PATRICK LYNCH. Philad'a  ...
David Lynch Decoded

David Lynch Decoded

Mark Allyn Stewart

Justin Miller is just an ordinary boy in upstate New York when he loses his mother to a tragic accident.

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