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DAVID LYNCH: THE MAN FROM ANOTHER PLACE
By: Dennis Lim
Amazon Publishing
November 2015
On Sale: November 3, 2015
ISBN: 0544343751
EAN: 9780544343757
Kindle: B00R6N77FK
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Non-Fiction Biography
At once a pop culture icon, cult figure, and film industry outsider, master filmmaker David Lynch and his work defy easy definition. Dredged from his subconscious mind, Lynchβs work is primed to act on our own subconscious, combining heightened, contradictory emotions into something familiar but inscrutable. No less than his art, Lynchβs life also evades simple categorization, encompassing pursuits as a musician, painter, photographer, carpenter, entrepreneur, and vocal proponent of Transcendental Meditation. David Lynch: The Man From Another Place, Dennis Limβs remarkably smart and concise book, proposes several lenses through which to view Lynch and his work: through the age-old mysteries of the uncanny and the sublime, through the creative energies of surrealism and postmodernism, through theories of dreams and of good and evil. Lynch himself often warns against overinterpretation. And accordingly, this is not a book that seeks to decode his art or annotate his lifeβto dispel the strangeness of the Lynchianβso much as one that offers complementary ways of seeing and understanding one of the most distinctive bodies of work in modern cinema. Its spirit is true to its subject, in remaining suggestive rather than definitive, in allowing what Lynch likes to call βroom to dream,β and in honoring the allure of the unknown and the unknowable.
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