The Oneiric in the Films of David Lynch: A Phenomenological Approach

"The Oneiric in the Films of David Lynch is the first systematic book-length study to explore the nature and function of dreams in David Lynch's different phases and audio-visual formats. It shows that, over the course of 50 years, Lynch has developed a cinematic aesthetics of the oneiric ? an ensemble of four dream-related dimensions that unfolds its full potential in the dynamic interplay between sensory address and reflective medialization. The oneiric in Lynch's films is of phenomenological, media-theoretical, and philosophical interest"--