"Aimed at both Lynch fans and film studies specialists, Allister Mactaggard addresses Lynch's films from the perspective of the relationship between commercial film, avant-garde art, and cultural theory."--Back cover.
1. Ever Died? Ever Failed? No Matter. Die Again. Fail Better. Immanence and Transcendence in Twin Peaks (with apologies to Samuel Beckett) -- 2. Reasons To Be Tearful: Snapshots of Lynchian Excess -- 3. Driven to Distraction: Hitching a Ride along the Lynchian Highway -- 4. Pierced by the Past: Filmic Trauma; Remembering and Forgetting -- 5. 'It is Happening Again': Experiencing the Lynchian Uncanny -- 6. The Return of the Repressed: INLAND EMPIRE, DavidLynch.com, and the Reemergence of Film Painting -- Stitching up Lynch.