The philosophy of David Lynch / edited by William J. Devlin and Shai Biderman. - Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, 2011. - vii; 248 p. - The philosophy of popular culture .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / William J. Devlin and Shai Biderman -- The World of David Lynch. "The Owls Are Not What They Seem": The Logic of Lynch's World / Robert Arp and Patricia Brace -- Intuition and Investigation into Another Place: The Epistemological Role of Dreaming in Twin Peaks and Beyond / Simon Riches -- The Horrors of Life's Hidden Mysteries: Blue Velvet / Sander H. Lee -- The Thing about David Lynch: Enjoying the Lynchian World / Russell Manning -- The World as Illusion: Rediscovering Mulholland Dr. and Lost Highway through Indian Philosophy / Ronie Parciack -- Selfhood and Subjectivity: The Existential Drive toward Self-Understanding. All Roads Lead to the Self: Zen Buddhism and David Lynch's Lost Highway / Mark Walling -- City of Dreams: Bad Faith in Mulholland Dr. / Jennifer McMahon -- Constellations of the Flesh: The Embodied Self in The Straight Story and The Elephant Man / Tal Correm -- David Lynch's Road Films: Individuality and Personal Freedom / Richard Gaughran -- Lynch's Zarathustra: The Straight Story / Shai Frogel -- The Self Confronts the World: Issues in Ethics, Society, and Religion. "There's a Sort of Evil Out There": Emersonian Transcendentalism in Twin Peaks / Scott Hamilton Suter -- "In Heaven Everything Is Fine": Erasing Traditional Morality / Jason Southworth -- The Monster Within: Alienation and Social Conformity in The Elephant Man / Shai Biderman and Assaf Tabeka -- Prophesies, Experience, and Proof: Philosophy of Religion in Dune / William J. Devlin.

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Lynch, David, 1946- --Criticism and interpretation.

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