David Lynch
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David Lynch
by Authors:
Michel Chion
Released: 19 June, 2006
ISBN: 1844570304
Paperback
Sales Rank: 411407
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Customer Review #1:
 Easily the best monograph on Lynch
Chion, who is a critic for Cahiers du cinema as well as an experimental composer, is the author of several exemplary works of film theory (including Voice in Cinema and a wonderful monograph on Kubricks 2001; the one notable exception is his short book on Eyes Wide Shut, which is a bit of a stinker). Academics may not find his work theoretical enough, and lay audiences may find them too theoretical, but, for me, they are a perfect mixture of concrete analysis and speculation: one leads to the other and back again.
lt;br /gt;It is not surprising, considering Chions interest in sound and sound/image relations (AudioVision is the title of one of his earliest books), that he would be drawn to the cinema of David Lynch. Lynch, of course, is known not only for collaborating on some of the music (writing lyrics for Angelo Badalamenti) but for designing his own sound mixes.
lt;br /gt;The first four sections cover, in roughly chronological order, all the films from Eraserhead to Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. The final section, "Lynch-Kit: From Alphabet to Word," is arranged around a series of Lynchian subjects/motifs, listed in alphabetical order, and is the highlight of the book. Chions observations here are inspired (see, for example, his comments on Lynchs idiosyncratic use of reaction shots in "Reaction"). Although his books ends with Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, it is not hard to see how the Lynch-Kit could be extended to include everything which follows, and not by way of "explaining" them (and thereby containing the Lynchian universe) but by allowing them to resonate and continue to grow, to proliferate.
lt;br /gt;An excellent book, which, by the way,is neither a biography nor in Spanish!
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Customer Review #2:
 In Spanish Beware
I did not know this book is written in Spanish before ordering it.
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Customer Review #3:
 This book is an interesting biography of David Lynch himself
as well as a very detailed analysis of his early art and ideas, only draw back, no "lost highway" chapter
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