David Lynch’s American Dreamscape: Music, Literature, Cinema
Mike Miley, "David Lynch’s American Dreamscape: Music, Literature, Cinema"
English | ASIN : B0DG22P8XD | 2025 | 288 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ASIN : B0DG22P8XD | 2025 | 288 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
How are David Lynch's films as much in dialogue with literary and musical traditions as they are cinematic ones?
By interrogating this question, David Lynch's American Dreamscape broadens the interpretive horizons of Lynch's filmography, calling for a new approach to Lynch's films that goes beyond cinema and visual art to explore how Lynch's work engages with literary and musical works that have shaped the American imagination. As much as Lynch stands as a singular artistic voice, his work arises from and taps into the cultural zeitgeist in a way that illuminates not only his approach to creativity but also the way works interact with each other in an age of mass media. From children's literature to teen tragedy ballads, Nathanael West and Cormac McCarthy to folk music and mixtapes,
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