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David Lynch: The Man From Another Place
Dennis Lim
Amazon Publishing
November 2015
On Sale: November 3, 2015
ISBN: 0544343751
EAN: 9780544343757
Kindle: B00R6N77FK
Hardcover / e-Book
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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, Lynch’s
work is primed to act on our own subconscious, combining
heightened, contradictory emotions into something familiar
but inscrutable. No less than his art, Lynch’s 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 Lim’s
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 life—to dispel the strangeness of the
Lynchian—so 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 “room to dream,” and in honoring
the allure of the unknown and the unknowable.
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