David Lynch

Type :

School essay

Pages :

4 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

11/19/2007

Category :

Arts & media

Sub category :

Film studies

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Summary :

Introduction
Classical Hollywood cinema during the latter half of the twentieth century
Postmodernism a view of the world where contradiction reigns supreme
David Lynch's first successful film
The innovative storytelling behind Blue Velvet
1. The identifiable genre details
2. A world in which nothing is real
The movie Wild at Heart
1. What critics failed to realize
2. A shock laden, intangible road movie
The reality within the films of David Lynch
A postmodern narrative element in the movies
Conclusion
Works cited

Abstract

Storytelling, since the dawn of time, has served as an invaluable means in which human beings are able to create, sustain, and relay emotion, identity, and ideology. The stories people tell allow them to simultaneously connect to, and differentiate themselves from one another. Arguably more important than the stories themselves are the manners in which they are told. In this century, films have become one of the dominant forms of storytelling. Movies are seen on every continent on Earth, and reach hundreds of millions of people each year. Storytellers who work within the medium of film have a chance to exhibit their work on an unparalleled stage. During the first half of the twentieth-century, a movement known as "classical Hollywood cinema" thrived. The films created in the time of classical Hollywood cinema operated largely within metanarratives; all-embracing laws which governed human behavior. These films utilized well-known plot structures and familiar characters to tell their stories. There was almost always a hero and a villain, and, in the end, the hero would always get the girl. Specifically, each film genre would operate amidst its own metanarrative structure. Detective movies, thrillers, romance movies, horror films, and comedies all followed their own metanarratives. This was, in the world of film, modernism.