Product Description

Series Editor: Frank Beaver, University of Michigan

From the early cinematic career of Frank Capra to the psychologically revealing films of Martin Scorsese, the books in this series offer an authoritative guide to the study of film and its trends by studying individual filmmakers and cinematic movements.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1803680 in Books
• Published on: 1992-12-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 207 pages

From Library Journal
Lynch's films, which demonstrate his unique and highly individualistic world view, envision a world of duality--good and evil, beauty and ugliness, banality and the bizarre, humor and violence--coexisting in the same character or location. Kaleta examines each of Lynch's feature-length movies, from Eraserhead (1978) to Wild at Heart (1990), in great detail. Though technically not a film, the popular television series Twin Peaks is also examined. The author's obvious enthusiasm for Lynch occasionally gets in the way of his critical judgment. On the whole, however, he does a good job of explaining the filmmaker's dual vision and how it is exhibited in the films. He also demonstrates how innovator Lynch also uses his knowledge of movie and television history to enrich his own works, supplying references to The Wizard of Oz in Wild at Heart and film noir touches in Blue Velvet (1986) . Recommended for academic and large public libraries.
- Marianne Cawley, Kingwood Branch Lib., Tex.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
"The Twayne Filmmakers Series provides students with rich opportunities for studying individual filmmakers, national cinema, and filmmaking technique. Books in the Filmmakers Series are written by major film scholars, historians, and critics who bring their special insights to a highly diverse collection of studies about the twentieth century's major art form: the motion picture."
-- Frank Beaver, Series Editor

Customer Reviews

Dated
Prospective buyers should be aware that this book only covers Lynch's films up to 1992's WILD AT HEART, so there's nothing on TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME, LOST HIGHWAY, MULHOLLAND DR., and many others.

Lynchophiles will find little new here, and curious newbies would be better off starting with more timely books like the updated LYNCH ON LYNCH, Chion's DAVID LYNCH, or the recent BEAUTIFUL DARK.

Again, this is not a bad book, just a very outdated one.

Awesome
Blows Faber and Faber's Lynch on Lynch away. Far superior in every single way. A must have for all film/TV/Lynch fans. Heck, possibly a must-have for all Americans!

Blows Lynch on Lynch away!
Faber and Faber would KILL to have written this book instead. Excellent analysis of modern noir genius. If you want to learn Lynch in-depth, BUY THIS BOOK.