Call Number | 16056 |
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Day & Time Location |
M 10:10am-12:40pm 508 Dodge Hall |
Points | 3 |
Grading Mode | Standard |
Approvals Required | None |
Instructor | Dennis Lim |
Type | SEMINAR |
Method of Instruction | In-Person |
Course Description | The course explores the work of David Lynch, one of American cinema’s most singular figures. We will consider Lynch’s narrative features, experimental shorts, and TV series, as well as his painting, photography, and music. One of our aims is to situate Lynch within (and alongside, and against) Hollywood and other cinematic and artistic traditions, while also suggesting connections, overt and otherwise, to a range of filmmakers and artists who have come after him. At the heart of our investigation is Lynch’s distinctive sensibility, which is at once easy to recognize and hard to define. By looking closely at his use of cinematic language, we will ask how Lynch’s films achieve their particular effects, and how they might give form to the desires and fears of their times. Drawing on multiple frameworks — including politics, place, gender, race, surrealism, spirituality, trauma, psychoanalysis, narratology, language, and architecture — we will examine the contradictions at the heart of the Lynchian aesthetic and its relationship to the myths, icons, and taboos of postwar America. |
Web Site | Vergil |
Department | Film |
Enrollment | 16 students (17 max) as of 4:06PM Wednesday, December 11, 2024 |
Subject | Film |
Number | GU4111 |
Section | 001 |
Division | School of the Arts |
Open To | Schools of the Arts, Barnard College, Columbia College, Engineering:Undergraduate, GSAS, General Studies |
Section key | 20243FILM4111W001 |