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David Lynch's Dune (1984) is the film that science fiction--and the director's most ardent fans--can neither forgive nor forget.
Frank Herbert's original 1965 novel built a meticulous universe of dark majesty and justice, as wild-eyed freedom fighters and relentless authoritarians all struggled for control of the desert planet Arrakis and its mystical, life-extending "spice." After several attempts to produce a film, Italian movie mogul Dino De Laurentiis and his producer daughter Raffaella would enlist David Lynch, whose Eraserhead (1977) and The Elephant Man (1980) had already marked him out as a visionary director.
What emerges out of their strange, long process is a deeply unique vision of the distant future; an eclectic bazaar of wood-turned spaceship interiors, spitting tyrants, and dream montages.
Lynch's film was "steeped in an ancient primordial nastiness that has nothing to do with the sci-fi film as we currently know it," as Village Voice critic J.
Hoberman put it--only with time becoming a cult classic.
This book is the first long-form critical study of the film; it delves into the relationship with the novel, the rapidly changing context of early 1980s science fiction, and takes a close look at Lynch's attempt to breathe sincerity and mysticism into a blockbuster movie format that was shifting radically around him.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:120 pages, 20 black and white
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:28/02/2019
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- ISBN:9781911325826
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:120 pages, 20 black and white
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:28/02/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781911325826
