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David Lynch: The Factory Photographs 

Hardcover

by Petra Giloy-Hirtz January 25, 2014 $54.00

Filled with dreamlike and eerie images, this first book of photographs from the director David Lynch offers a window into the iconic filmmaker's creative vision. Anyone familiar with David Lynch's cinematic achievement will identify similarities between this series of photographs and his most powerful films. Dark and beautiful, mystical and enigmatic, these photos reveal Lynch's unique style. The exterior and interior black and white shots of factories in Berlin, Poland, New York, England, and other locations are filled with Lynchian characteristics: labyrinthine passages, decaying walls, industrial waste, and detritus. Devoid of nature, the dying, manmade structures are actually being overtaken by nature's innate power. They are haunting cathedrals of a bygone industrial era--the perfect setting for a David Lynch film, and a revealing addition to his unique and fascinating oeuvre.

The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway 

(Occasional Papers) by Slavoj Zizek and Marek Wieczorek (Jan 1, 2000) $18.00

The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime is first of all the detailed reading of David Lynch's The Lost Highway, based on the premises of Lacanian psychoanalysis. Lynch's unique universe of the 'ridiculous sublime' is interpreted as a simultaneous playful staging and traversing of the fundamental ideological fantasies that sustain our late capitalist society. A master of reversals, Zizek invites the reader to reexamine with him easy assumptions, received opinion, and current critical trends, as well as pose tough questions about the ways in which we understand our world and culture. He offers provocative readings of Casablanca, Schindler's List, and Life Is Beautiful in the process of examining topics as diverse and as closely linked as ethics, politics, and cyberspace. Slavoj Zizek, a senior researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana, is the author of Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchock) and In Defense of Lost Causes, among many books. Marek Wieczorek is assistant professor of modern art history at the University of Washington, Seattle, and the author of The Touch of Light: Laser Paintings by Carel Balth.

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Authorship and the Films of David Lynch

: Aesthetic Receptions in Contemporary Hollywood 

Antony Todd (Author) 

[Hardcover] April 24, 2012 $90.00 

This important new contribution to studies on authorship and film explores the ways in which shared and disputed opinions on aesthetic quality, originality, and authorial essence have shaped receptions of Lynch's films. It is also the first book to approach David Lynch as a figure composed through language, history, and text. 

Tracing the development of Lynch's career from cult obscurity with Eraserhead , to star auteur through the release of Blue Velvet , and TV phenomenon Twin Peaks , Antony Todd examines how his idiosyncratic style introduced the term "Lynchian" to the colloquial speech of new Hollywood and helped establish Lynch as the leading light among contemporary American auteurs. Todd explores contemporary manners and attitudes for artistic reputation building, and the standards by which Lynch's reputation was dismantled following the release of Wild at Heart and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me , only to be reassembled once more through films such as Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive , and Inland Empire . In its account of the experiences at play in the encounter between ephemera, text, and reader, this book reveals how authors function for pleasure in the modern filmgoer's everyday consumption of films.

Paris Photo by David Lynch 

Paperback – November 20, 2012

by Julien Frydman (Editor) $76.98

For the first time, Paris Photo presents an original journey within the galleries: "Paris Photo seen by ...". In 2012, Paris Photo entrusts David Lynch with the task of choosing from among the works exhibited by the gallery owners. An original way for the public to contemplate the works whilst at the same time discovering the artist's aesthetic universe. "Looking at David Lynch's selection is a bit like visiting Paris Photo in his company; a dialogue begins; we do look at the works "together", but first of all we look at them in a different way, through a "Lynchian" filter. Our first perception undergoes a distortion, the reading becomes a plural one and reveals the metaphoric power of every image; I believe it will be the same for other visitors, only that Lynch's subconscious takes over: the body, the strangeness, the potential narrative and the ambiguity of the image are always present." Julien Frydman, Director of Paris Photo