James D. Reid, Candace R. Craig

Agency and Imagination in the Films of David Lynch

Philosophical Perspectives

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Agency and Imagination in the Films of David Lynch: Philosophical Perspectives offers a sustained philosophical interpretation of the filmmaker's work in light of classic and contemporary discussions of human agency and the complex relations between our capacity to act and our ability to imagine.

Produktdetails

• Cine-Aesthetics: New Directions in Film and Philosophy
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 611g
• ISBN-13: 9781498555937
• ISBN-10: 1498555934
• Artikelnr.: 57754222

Autorenporträt

James D. Reid is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Inhaltsangabe

1. "I Wanna Finish This One My Own Way": Strong Agency in The Straight
Story 2. From Pasture to Hellhole: Weak Agency and Industry in Eraserhead
3. Imaginative Recognition and Transfiguration in The Elephant Man 4.
Knowledge, Agency, and Violence in Blue Velvet 5. Agency and Identity in
Wild at Heart 6. "You'll Never Have Me": Agents Apart in Lost Highway 7.
"It's No Longer Your Film": Fantasy, Fate, and Agency in Mulholland Dr. 8.
"My Wife is Not a Free Agent": Agency Lost in INLAND EMPIRE 9. Agency
Regained in Twin Peaks: The Return, or Myths of Overreaching