David Lynch and the American West : essays on regionalism and indigeneity in Twin Peaks and the films / edited by Rob E. King, Christine Self, and Robert G. Weaver ; foreword by John Thorne.
Foreword: A long way from the world : David Lynch and the American West / John Thorne -- Considering regionalism in the films of David Lynch : an interview with Andréas Halskov / Rob E. King -- "To the hellhole it is now" : the pastoral and industrialization in Eraserhead / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns -- Watch and listen to the dream of time and space : historiography, geography, and Twin Peaks / Rebecca Heimel 36 -- The wood for the trees : regional and anthropocene signals in the Pacific Northwest forests of Twin Peaks / Andy Hageman -- Dark Americana : identity, frontiers and heterotopias in David Lynch's dreams / Marko Lukić -- A discussion on the treatment of indigeneity in Twin Peaks : an interview with Geoff Bil / Rob E. King -- "It has something to do with your heritage" : indigenous arts in Twin Peaks / David Titterington -- "Very old, but always current" : indigenous geographies in Twin Peaks / Garrett Wayne Wright -- "I am the FBI" : American identity in Twin Peaks / Molly O'Gorman -- Thoughts on the American Southwest in film and television : an interview with Monica Montelongo Flores / Rob E. King -- Once upon a time in Rancho Rosa : reading Twin Peaks season 3 as a neo-Western / Franck Boulègue and Marisa C. Hayes -- I'm going West, Diane : masculinity and the cowboy archetype in the works of David Lynch / Andrew T. Burt -- David Lynch's desert frontier : road movie, desert horror, and Western liminality / Thomas Britt -- The Western road as metaphor for american instability in David Lynch's Lost Highway / Mark Henderson -- Re-imagined West in the L.A. Trilogy : a heritage of California fiction and American trauma / Rob E. King.
Summary:
"This collection convenes diverse analyses of David Lynch's newly conceived, dreamlike neo-noir representations of the American West, a first in studies of regionalism and indigeneity in his films. Twelve essays and three interviews address Lynch's image of the American West and its impact on the genre. Fans and scholars of David Lynch's work will find a study of his interpretations of the West as place and myth, spanning from his first feature film, Eraserhead (1977), through the third season of Twin Peaks in 2017. Symbols of the West in Lynch's work can be as obvious as an Odessa, Texas street sign or as subtle as the visual themes rooted in indigenous artistry. Explorations of cowboy masculinity, violence, modern frontier narratives and representations of indigeneity are all included in this collection"-- Provided by publisher.
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