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By Zina Giannopoulou

ISBN-10: 0415824656

ISBN-13: 9780415824651

ISBN-10: 0415824664

ISBN-13: 9780415824668

Beloved by way of movie and artwork aficionados and lovers of neo-noir cinema, Mulholland Drive is without doubt one of the most crucial and enigmatic movies of modern years. It occupies a critical and debatable place within the paintings of its director, David Lynch, who received the easiest director award on the 2001 Cannes movie competition for the movie.


Mulholland Drive within the Routledge Philosophers on Film sequence is the 1st complete philosophical appraisal of Lynch's movie. starting with an creation via the editor, the quantity explores the next topics:



  • the identification of the self and its endurance via time

  • the valuable, twin roles performed by means of myth and truth through the film

  • whether Mulholland Drive is better understood epistemologically through cause and language, or no matter if, as Lynch himself argues, via one's 'inner emotions' and emotions

  • parallels among Mulholland Drive and Kafka's The Castle, either one of which pit their protagonists on the mercy of unseen forces

  • Mulholland Drive and romanticism.


Additional key subject matters also are mentioned, comparable to the interpenetration of ethics, classical tragedy, and the contrasting philosophical arguments of Plato and Nietzsche on tragic drama. those topics make Mulholland Drive crucial and fascinating examining for college students of philosophy, particularly aesthetics and ethics, in addition to movie studies.

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