Networked David Lynch: Critical Perspectives on Cinematic Transmediality

About the Book

Networked David Lynch is a multi-disciplinary reconsideration of Lynch's uvre in the context of the challenges and opportunities offered by transmedia environments and networks of the 21st century. This collection builds on state-of-the-art-research concepts like video-graphic criticism and video essays to provide a fresh and important approach to any study of David Lynch's uvre. As such, Networked David Lynch is an attractive entry point to current media theory and recent film history, appealing to cinephiles, academics, researchers, and students.
This multi-disciplinary reader provides immediate relevance to university courses focusing on modern film history and on current theory in film, television, and media studies. The scope of approaches featured in the book provides an informative basis for courses on transmedia and media convergence, sound studies, musicology, cultural studies, and American studies.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Entering Lynchtown - Andreas Rauscher, Marcel Hartwig, Peter Niedermüller 1. Visits Paid to the 'Imaginary Museum of Musical Works': David Lynch and the Musical Canon - Peter Niedermüller 2. Turn and Face the Strange: Changing Faces in the Cinema of Lynch - Mads Outzen Part II: Twin Peaks as Transmedia Network 3. Singing the Body Electric: Myth and Electricity as Both Sides of a Metaphorical Coin in Twin Peaks: The Return - Willem Strank 4. The W/hole David Lynch: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me - Constantine Verevis 5. ‘Is it future or is it past?’ Visual Effects in Twin Peaks: The Return - Jannik Müller 6. That Gum You Like Isn’t Going to Come Back in Style: Twin Peaks 1990–91/2017, Nostalgia and the End of (Golden Age) Television - Bernd Zywietz 7. 'Two Birds, One Stone’: Transmedia Storytelling in Twin Peaks - Dan Hassler-Forest 8. The World Spins: Transmedia Detours and Cinematic Configurations around Twin Peaks - Andreas Rauscher Part III: David Lynch’s Transmedia Aesthetics 9. Tracing the Lost Highway: Mythical Topography in David Lynch’s Los Angeles Trilogy - Marcus Stiglegger 10. Structures of Female Desire, Control and Withdrawal in Lynch’s Cinematic Work - Lioba Schlösser 11. Room to Meme: ‘David Lynch’ as Problematic and Self-Evident Aesthetic Object in Digital Memes - Marcel Hartwig Part IV: Videographic Criticism of David Lynch’s Cinematic Work 12. Researching Audiovisually: Experiments in Videographic Criticism in David Lynch’s The Elephant Man (1980) and Blue Velvet (1986) - Liz Greene 13. A Form That Keeps Unravelling: On David Lynch, Spontaneity and Organic Fluidity in Videographic Essay Production and Academia - Chris Aarnes Bakkane Conclusion: Leaving Lynchtown - Andreas Rauscher, Marcel Hartwig, Peter Niedermüller　

About the Author :
Marcel Hartwig is a Lecturer in English and American Studies at the University of Siegen. He has contributed to academic readers and international journals in the field of media studies, television studies, literary criticism, gender studies, and popular culture. Currently, he is finalizing his post-doctoral project in the field of transatlantic studies, Transit Cultures: 18th Century Medical Discourses and Knowledge Media in the North American Colonies. He is also co-editor of Media Economies: Perspectives on American Cultural Practices (2014) and the Rock Music Studies special issue on American Rock Journalism (2017). Andreas Rauscher is a Visiting Professor for Media Culture Studies at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Previously, he was Senior Lecturer at the Department for Media Studies at University of Siegen. He was also Visiting Professor of Media Studies at Christian Albrechts-Universität Kiel and at Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz. His research focuses on film, game, comic, and cultural studies, transmedia aesthetics and genre theory. His publications as an author and co-editor have covered the Simpsons, superhero movies, comics and games, John Carpenter, Star Wars, James Bond and the Czechoslovakian Nová Vlna, in addition to an introduction to Game Studies. Peter Niedermüller is a Researcher in Musicology and Digital Humanities at University of Mainz. Between 2011 and 2012 he was a Visiting Professor at the German Historical Institute in Rome. In 2019, he was appointed Professor at Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz. His research focuses on studies in musical interpretation and film music. He previously published Klangkultur und musikalische Interpretation. Italienische Dirigenten im 20. Jahrhundert (2018). He is a member of the Kiel Society in the Research of Film Music and a co-editor of the Kieler Beiträge zur Filmmusikforschung.

Review :
This interdisciplinary book on David Lynch is as innovative and intrepid as its subject. Exploring Lynch’s use of music, physiognomy, hauntology, set design, visual effects, social media and the femme fatale, the authors reposition the director as a network of intertextual links that constantly morphs and remediates itself. This is an important transmedial intervention into media studies A provocative volume that "illustrates how cinema becomes a wide-reaching phenomenon on different platforms and media contexts" (p. 259). A valuable resource for those interested in film, television, music, cultural studies, and mass media. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers. A provocative volume that “illustrates how cinema becomes a wide-reaching phenomenon on different platforms and media contexts” (p. 259). A valuable resource for those interested in film, television, music, cultural studies, and mass media. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers.