Claire Henry is a Lecturer and Discipline Lead in Screen at Flinders University, Australia. She is the author of Revisionist Rape-Revenge: Redefining a Film Genre (2014), co-author of Screening the Posthuman (2023), and a contributor to edited volumes on national cinemas, genre and censorship. She has also published widely in journals such as Studies in European Cinema, Open Cultural Studies, Frames Cinema Journal and Senses of Cinema.

Claire Henry’s book in the wonderful British Film Institute series, each of which focuses on an individual ‘film classic’, is a thoughtful and individual look at David Lynch’s unsettling late 1970s black and white film Eraserhead.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Baby1. A Completely Furnished Lynchian World2. The Viewer Becomes the Dreamer3. The Ultimate Midnight Movie Conclusion: Traces of EraserheadNotesCreditsBibliography

Claire Henry is a Lecturer and Discipline Lead in Screen at Flinders University, Australia. She is the author of Revisionist Rape-Revenge: Redefining a Film Genre (2014), co-author of Screening the Posthuman (2023), and a contributor to edited volumes on national cinemas, genre and censorship. She has also published widely in journals such as Studies in European Cinema, Open Cultural Studies, Frames Cinema Journal and Senses of Cinema.

Claire Henry’s book in the wonderful British Film Institute series, each of which focuses on an individual ‘film classic’, is a thoughtful and individual look at David Lynch’s unsettling late 1970s black and white film Eraserhead.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Baby1. A Completely Furnished Lynchian World2. The Viewer Becomes the Dreamer3. The Ultimate Midnight Movie Conclusion: Traces of EraserheadNotesCreditsBibliography

Claire Henry is a Lecturer and Discipline Lead in Screen at Flinders University, Australia. She is the author of Revisionist Rape-Revenge: Redefining a Film Genre (2014), co-author of Screening the Posthuman (2023), and a contributor to edited volumes on national cinemas, genre and censorship. She has also published widely in journals such as Studies in European Cinema, Open Cultural Studies, Frames Cinema Journal and Senses of Cinema.

Claire Henry’s book in the wonderful British Film Institute series, each of which focuses on an individual ‘film classic’, is a thoughtful and individual look at David Lynch’s unsettling late 1970s black and white film Eraserhead.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Baby1. A Completely Furnished Lynchian World2. The Viewer Becomes the Dreamer3. The Ultimate Midnight Movie Conclusion: Traces of EraserheadNotesCreditsBibliography