The Birth of the Golden Age of Television Attended Fine Arts school in Philadelphia The Grandmother 1970 AFI Supported family with odd jobs Worked on the script for Eraserhead 1977 Mel Brooks called him Jimmy Stewart from Mars ID: 286335
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David Lynch
The Birth of the Golden Age of Television Slide2
Attended Fine Arts school in Philadelphia
The Grandmother (1970)
AFI Supported family with odd jobsWorked on the script for Eraserhead (1977)Mel Brooks called him “Jimmy Stewart from Mars”
Early Films Slide3
Surrealism originated in the late 1910s and early '20s as a literary movement that experimented with a new mode of expression called automatic writing, or automatism, which sought to release the unbridled imagination of the subconscious
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All sorts of techniques and phenomena were employed to achieve this subconscious creativity, including dreams, hallucinations, automatic or random image generation - basically anything that circumvented the usual "rational" thought processes involved in creating works of art.SurrealismSlide4
Was known to include elements from dreams in his work
Lynch Slide5
Took 3 years
Delivered newspapers
Lived on the set Production of Eraserhead Slide6
Desolate industrial city
Characters Henry and Mary X give birth to a monstrous baby
Henry dreams of escaping with a woman who serenades him from behind the radiator“illogic and rhythm of a bad dream”Theme of “sexual repression”EraserheadSlide7
Alan Spelt (sound editor) won an Academy Award for his audio work on
The Black Stallion (1979)
Cinematographer Fred Elmes went on to shoot more idiosyncratic filmsJack Nance never broke into Hollywood, but had parts in other Lynch films as well as a favorite character on Twin Peaks Cast and CrewSlide8
Lynch was given the Writing and Directing Assignment
Mel Brooks (a producer of the film) suggested him
Nominated for 8 Academy AwardsLynch was nominated for director and screenplayHis films have always remained odd and divisiveThe Elephant Man 1980Slide9
The Golden Age of TV, Twin Peaks (1990) Slide10
Flash Forwards
Dream Sequences
Extra-dimensional spiritsOther-worldly villains Sense of placeSpecial code Mythology of the show
Television mythologies allow viewers to feel like they are part of a special code. Shows with idiosyncratic mythologies tend to develop cult followings. Ex. Twin Peaks, Star Trek, X-Files, Lost Slide11
The X Files
Lost
Mad MenBreaking BadThe KillingTrue Detective Likely influenced the following shows
Also generated a rabid cult followingSlide12
Expanded the vocabulary of the small screen
Cinematography
EditingSet designCinematic Style Slide13
Nightmarish images
Melodrama
AbsurdismKitcshSlide14
Laura Palmer
Development of character (of a dead girl)
like Otto Primenger’s Laura One of the most intriguing characters ever on television Anti-heroEvil is represented as a an entity (rather than specific characters) Slide15
Mark Frost
David Lynch
The Lynch style brought something to TV never seen before Showrunners and creative controlSlide16
Flubbed lines
Faulty Fluorescent
Frank Silva accidentally caught in a mirror (and becoming the main villain)Mistakes that were kept Slide17
“Twin Peaks,” despite all its innovations, died an ignoble death, hemorrhaging viewers. Not even Lynch’s sort-of prequel film, “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me,” could salvage the show.