David Lynch: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series) - Softcover

Richard A. Barney (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604732377 ISBN 13: 9781604732375

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 2009

Synopsis

Few directors in the past three decades have produced movies more compelling, controversial, or confounding than David Lynch (b. 1946). And fewer still have been so reluctant to talk about what they do. In this collection, editor Richard A. Barney has chosen the rare interviews in which Lynch opens up to questions rather than deflecting them. Whether Lynch is talking about his earliest film shorts such as The Grandmother or the break-out surrealist feature Eraserhead, the hit TV series Twin Peaks or his Oscar-nominated The Elephant Man or Blue Velvet or his most recent experimental tours de force, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire, he stresses the power of image and sound to communicate his vision.

David Lynch: Interviews is the first survey of conversations with the director covering the broad spectrum of his artistic activities throughout his career, including filmmaking, painting, music production, and furniture design. It documents the evolution of Lynch's role in discussing his movies, from his self-described "pre-verbal stage" in the early years to his increasingly elaborate, though persistently elusive, articulations. It also registers the intense international interest in Lynch�s work, with interviews from French and Spanish sources translated here for the first time.

About this title

About the Author

Richard A. Barney is associate professor of English at the University of Albany, State University of New York, and he is the author of Plots of Enlightenment: Education and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century England.

From the Back Cover

Interviews with the acclaimed director of the films Dune, Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire and the hit TV series Twin Peaks

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1604732377
• ISBN 13: 9781604732375
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224