The Cinema of David Lynch

Edited by Erica Sheen and Annette Davison

Notes on Contributors
Introduction: American Dreams, Nightmare Visions, by Erica Sheen and Annette Davison
1. The Essential Evil in/of Eraserhead (or, Lynch to the Contrary), by Steven Jay Schneider
2. David Lynch and the Mug Shot: Facework in The Elephant Man and The Straight Story, by Joe Kember
3. Going Into Strange Worlds: David Lynch, Dune and New Hollywood, by Erica Sheen
4. Mysteries of Love: Lynch's Blue Velvet/Freud's Wolf-Man, by Sam Ishii-Gonzales
5. Blue Velvet Underground: David Lynch's Post-Punk Poetics, by Nicholas Rombes
6. Laura and Twin Peaks: Postmodern Parody and the Musical Reconstruction of the Absent Femme Fatale, by John Richardson
7. Twin Peaks, Weak Language and the Resurrection of Affect, by Sheli Ayers
8. 'In Dreams…': Gender, Sexuality and Violence in the Cinema of David Lynch, by Jana Evans Braziel
9. 'Up in Flames': Love, Control and Collaboration in the Soundtrack to Wild at Heart, by Annette Davison
10. Weird or Loopy? Specular Spaces, Feedback and Artifice in Lost Highway's Aesthetics of Sensation, by Greg Hainge
11. Beyond Boundaries: David Lynch's Lost Highway, by Anne Jerslev
12. 'All I Need is the Girl': The Life and Death of Creativity in Mulholland Drive, by Martha P. Nochimson
Filmography
Bibliography
Index