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Atkinson Michael (Adjunct Professor Of Film At Long Island University Long Island University Usa)
Blue Velvet
Blue Velvet
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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. In his afterword to this new edition Atkinson situates Blue Velvet within a culture that has changed drastically in the 35 years since its release and in doing so he considers the film's lasting significance as it slowly turns from contemporary phenomenon to an interpretable artifact.
Title: Blue Velvet
Author(s): Atkinson Michael (Adjunct Professor Of Film At Long Island University Long Island University Usa)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781839023712
Pages: 88 Pages, 60 Colour Illus
Publication Date: 11/30/2021
Series: BFI Film Classics
Category: Film Guides & Reviews
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. In his afterword to this new edition Atkinson situates Blue Velvet within a culture that has changed drastically in the 35 years since its release and in doing so he considers the film's lasting significance as it slowly turns from contemporary phenomenon to an interpretable artifact.
Title: Blue Velvet
Author(s): Atkinson Michael (Adjunct Professor Of Film At Long Island University Long Island University Usa)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781839023712
Pages: 88 Pages, 60 Colour Illus
Publication Date: 11/30/2021
Series: BFI Film Classics
Category: Film Guides & Reviews