Title:
The philosophy of David Lynch edited by William J. Devlin and Shai Biderman.
The philosophy of popular culture
Philosophy of popular culture.
Main Entry:
Devlin, William J.
Biderman, Shai.
ebrary, Inc.
Publisher:
University Press of Kentucky,
Publication Date:
2011.
Publication Place:
Lexington, Ky. :
ISBN:
9780813129914 (alk. paper)
9780813133966 (e-book)
Subject:
Electronic books.
Lynch, David, 1946- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Series:
The philosophy of popular culture
Philosophy of popular culture.
Contents:
Introduction / William J. Devlin and Shai Biderman -- The World of David Lynch. "The Owls Are Not What They Seem": The Logic of Lynch's World / Robert Arp and Patricia Brace -- Intuition and Investigation into Another Place: The Epistemological Role of Dreaming in Twin Peaks and Beyond / Simon Riches -- The Horrors of Life's Hidden Mysteries: Blue Velvet / Sander H. Lee -- The Thing about David Lynch: Enjoying the Lynchian World / Russell Manning -- The World as Illusion: Rediscovering Mulholland Dr. and Lost Highway through Indian Philosophy / Ronie Parciack -- Selfhood and Subjectivity: The Existential Drive toward Self-Understanding. All Roads Lead to the Self: Zen Buddhism and David Lynch's Lost Highway / Mark Walling -- City of Dreams: Bad Faith in Mulholland Dr. / Jennifer McMahon -- Constellations of the Flesh: The Embodied Self in The Straight Story and The Elephant Man / Tal Correm -- David Lynch's Road Films: Individuality and Personal Freedom / Richard Gaughran -- Lynch's Zarathustra: The Straight Story / Shai Frogel -- The Self Confronts the World: Issues in Ethics, Society, and Religion. "There's a Sort of Evil Out There": Emersonian Transcendentalism in Twin Peaks / Scott Hamilton Suter -- "In Heaven Everything Is Fine": Erasing Traditional Morality / Jason Southworth -- The Monster Within: Alienation and Social Conformity in The Elephant Man / Shai Biderman and Assaf Tabeka -- Prophesies, Experience, and Proof: Philosophy of Religion in Dune / William J. Devlin.
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