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.
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