Contributions

  • British Film Institute. - Contributor

Publication

1997 - British Film Institute, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

20,000 words, Guess

Page Count

80 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads892689
  • LibraryThing953474

Classifications

  • DDC791.43/72
  • LCCPN1997.B6783 A84 1997

Description

"For many, Blue Velvet is David Lynch's masterpiece. It represents a unique act of cinema: an 80s Hollywood studio film as radical, visionary and cabalistic as anything found in the avant-garde; a mysteriously symbolic and subterranean 'cult' movie that nevertheless has recognisable stars and was broadly distributed; a genre piece with the ambience of a fearsome, hyper-composed nightmare; an American 'art film' by Hollywood's only reputable 'art film' director. Michael Atkinson s intricate and layered reading of the film shows how crystallises many of Lynch s chief preoccupations: the evil and violence underlying the surface of suburbia, the seedy by-ways of sexuality, the frightening appearance of the adult world to a child's eyes, presenting it as the definitive expression of the traumatized innocence which characterizes Lynch's work."--

Subjects

Topics

HistoryFilm & MediaFilms, cinemaMotion picturesMotion picture playsHistory and criticismHorror (Film & Media)

Series Statement

  • BFI modern classics

Other Editions

  • Blue velvetBritish Film Institute1997-01-01

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