Networked David Lynch: Critical Perspectives on Cinematic Transmediality

The first multi-disciplinary reconsideration of Lynch's uvre

Offers multi-disciplinary approaches to transmediality

Provides new readings of David Lynch's open uvre

Explores new methods and approaches in film studies, e.g. videographic criticism

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.