New York City or Dust

'Kubla Honky Tonk: Voice in Cyber-Pidgin' by Gregory Ulmer
chapter 10 in 'Language Machines: Technologies of Literary and Cultural Production' eds. Jeffrey Masten, Peter Stallybrass, Nancy J. Vickers. 1997. Routledge. NY. USA

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another annotated thing for my biblio:
'The Lamella of David Lynch' by Slavoj Zizek (p205 - 220). a chapter from 'Reading Seminar XI: Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis' eds. Richard Feldstein, Bruch Fink, Maire Jaanus. 1995. State University of New York Press.
Zizek uses a postmodernist view to understand theories on Lacan, and then produces textual criticism on Pre-Raphaelite painters, Lynch's ontology as a filmmaker, and Milan Kundera. He discusses theses modes of storytelling, in regard to the 'gaze', 'cause & effect', 'the loss of reality', space & open (does not mention Deleuze) etc. A good example of how Lynch's work helps us understand postmodernism.

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'A Small Boy & Others' Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol
by Michael Moon (1998) Duke University Press. Durham & London 1998.
Written to explore the 'extraordinary creativity and originality of gay men's contributions to modern culture' (p1), Moon writes about film, novels, painting etc, and applies theories (his own & others) to them. At times the 'relations between word and image, linguistic and visual representation, seeing and speaking (or writing)'(p5) are discussed, and looks at images and character relations in David Lynch's Blue Velvet. With a historical, linear, comparitive approach, Moon keeps within a sociological framework, (and for my work) in how (homo)sexuality is created through image. Blue Velvet mentioned from pages 15 - 29.

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