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David Lynch
David Lynch’s films are usually described as… Lynchian. This tautology recognises the distinctive features of Lynch’s cinema, but can also distract from a strong affinity with the gothic and horror genres. In all aspects of narrative design and character type, mise en scène and setting, thematics and tropology we can uncover compelling evidence of Lynch’s gothic sensibility. This essay pulls out the gothic spine from the body of Lynch’s work: the loopy storylines which replace conventional categories of time and space, inside and outside, dream and reality, self and other with clues, secrets and mystery; and a narrative engine fuelled by fear associated with extreme acts of violence, the transgression of primal taboos, shadowy doubles, monsters and demons.
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The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary GothicPages
781 - 797Publisher
Palgrave MacmillanVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This book chapter was published in the book The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic. The definitive published version of the book is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33136-8.Publication date
2020-07-11Copyright date
2020ISBN
9783030331351; 9783030331368Publisher version
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- en
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Clive BloomDepositor
Dr Brian Jarvis. Deposit date: 6 April 2020Usage metrics
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