Critical Companion to David Lynch

Andrew M. Winters is professor of philosophy and Chair of Humanities at Yavapai College.

• 1. “Sound Comes First: Understanding the Music and Sound Design of David Lynch’s Short Films,” Reba Wissner2. “Pataphysical Narratives in Lynch’s Short Films and What is David Working on Today?,” Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns3. “Sense and Significance in Six Men Getting Sick,” Zachary Vereb4. “Narrativism and Performativity in Absurda and Darkened Room,” Kristina Šekrst5. “Reframing Noir Windows: The Inward Gaze of David Lynch’s The Grandmother,” Matthew Sorrento6. “Openness from Closure: Creative Emergence and Embodied Dynamics in Eraserhead,” Peter Lang7. “The Beautiful Tragedy of Lynch’s The Elephant Man,” Andrew M. Winters8. “David Lynch Constrained on Dune,” Rupert Loydell and Kingsley Marshall9. “The Phonic-Materiality of David Lynch’s Lost Highway,” Osman Nemli10. “‘My most experimental movie’: Transcendental Style and the Art Spirit in David Lynch’s The Straight Story,” David LaRocca11. “Driving Buicks to the Moon: Innocence and Experience in Wild at Heart,” Kwasu Tembo12. “Past and Possible Lives in Inland Empire,” David Sweeney13. “‘It is happening again’: Repetition and Replay in the Works of David Lynch,” Adam Daniel14. “‘A woman in Trouble’: Twin Peaks as Critique of Patriarchal Violence,” Julie Hamilton15. “How Twin Peaks: The Return’s Diane Escapes: the Plot in The Pinnacle of Lynch’s Use of Metafiction and Entrapment,” Donald McCarthy16. “‘Tricks’: Inside Lynch’s Hotel Room,” James Jarrett17. “Necropolitical Patriarchy and the Lynchian Koan,” Matthew Grinder18. “Innocence Lost: Constructions of Childhood in The Alphabet and The Grandmother,” Brandelyn M. Andres19. “Wonder, Weather, and Coffee: Lynch and the Sacred of the Everyday,” Zachary Sheldon