Table of Contents

Introduction: Towards a Palimpsest 

Chapter One: Ever Died? Ever Failed? No Matter. Die Again. Fail Better. Immanence and Transcendence In Twin Peaks (With Apologies To Samuel Beckett) 

Chapter Two: Reasons to be Tearful: Snapshots of Lynchian Excess 

Chapter Three: Driven to Distraction: Hitching a Ride along the Lynchian Highway 

Chapter Four: Pierced by the Past: Filmic Trauma; Remembering and Forgetting 

Chapter Five: ‘It is Happening Again’: Experiencing the Lynchian Uncanny 

Chapter Six: The Return of the Repressed: INLAND EMPIRE, DavidLynch.Com, and the Re-emergence of Film Painting 

Conclusion: Stitching up Lynch

About the Author

Allister Mactaggart is a senior lecturer at the Directorate of Art and Design, Chesterfield College and an associate lecturer of Leeds Metropolitan University. He teaches film studies and art history, specializing in David Lynch, psychoanalysis, and visual culture.

Reviews

"Allister Mactaggart's singular achievement is to freely bring the affect and the emotion of viewing Lynch's films to the questions of how they can be studied. The Film Paintings of David Lynch crosses the boundaries of how we experience different forms of art, breaks down generic criticism and methodological conventions, and in doing this it presents us with fresh ways of thinking psychoanalysis and aesthetics in cultural writing. Rather than offering Lynch newly cut and dried, it enables us in our turn to value our seeing and our feeling of this remarkable body of work."--Adrian Rifkin, University of London