With David Lynch’s American Dreamscape: Music, Literature, Cinema, author Mike Miley, a literature teacher at Metairie Park Country Day School and former film studies professor at Loyola University New Orleans, unpacks just some of the ways Lynch’s ideas have reverberated across the cultural spectrum. Comparing and contrasting his oeuvre with art by Cormac McCarthy, Lana Del Rey, David Foster Wallace, Maurice Sendak, and others, Miley demonstrates the strange and powerful way Lynch tapped into the human experience and the broader American pop landscape. He joins us to discuss.
Category: David Lynch
Lynch People: Remembering David Lynch
In tribute to David Lynch, we reached out to a variety of musicians, writers, directors, and artists within the AD orbit to share their thoughts on working with Lynch, watching his films, and the many ways he influenced their own art and life.
Videodrome :: David Lynch’s Georgia Coffee Commercials (1993)
Unlike Lynch’s other commercial work, which highlights his aesthetic trademarks while showcasing the brand’s merchandise, the Georgia Coffee campaign is as much an advertisement for the product as it is for Twin Peaks, simultaneously exhibiting the series’ seismic impact on pop culture as well as Lynch’s uncanny ability to straddle the line between the mainstream and the avant-garde.
Videodrome :: Wild At Heart
“Wild At Heart is a love story that barrels down a strange highway through the twisted modern world,” David Lynch said of his 1990 film. “There are very tender moments, and there are very violent moments. And then there’s confusion and despair, and then suddenly – you’re in love. There’s got to be room for all of these things…film, in my mind, should have contrast to it. It should have many different kinds of feelings all weaving their way throughout.”
The Twin Peaks Archives :: Volumes I & II
With a solid twenty years under its belt, various art installations , DVD releases, and the widespread availability of the series via Netflix streaming, the cult that is Twin Peaks fandom has never been […]
Antony and the Johnsons :: Mysteries of Love
Over the past 25 years the collaboration between David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti has yielded many a monster—producing some of cinemas most gothic, memorable and atmospheric scores. A relationship that began with […]
David Lynch :: A Soundtrack Enthusiast II
“A candy colored clown they call the sandman, Tiptoes to my room every night” – Roy Orbison David Lynch : auteur/soundtrack enthusiast/hypnosis pundit. Here we have a filmmaker who absolutely transforms the […]