The Cinema of David Lynch: American Dreams, Nightmare Visions (Directors' Cuts (Paperback))

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Summary: blah blah blah blah blah
Review: For an analysis about the works of one of the most VISUAL of all directors in American cinema, this small volume is more like a text book for a college class. For the price I paid, I imagined one of those lavishly illustrated coffee table type books. Yes, some of those can be quite scholarly! This is a surprisingly small book with a lot of text and a few black and white photos. The price for the "hardbound" is outrageous! I ordered the hardcover version of this book with enormous enthusiasm and then received a rather unattractively (not to say frugally) bound book. Perhaps it's best to get it in paperback. It's less expensive for those who simply want to read about (instead of enjoying a more photographically enhanced coverage of) the work by an artist in a VISUAL medium. It's only my opinion, of course, but I did purchase it and I was not happy with what I received at all! This may sound like a non-intellectual "review" of the book, but I don't presume to be an intellectual. However, I do like Lynch and appreciate (and prefer) well illustrated books about movies.

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Summary: One of the Best Books on Lynch
Review: Is it possible for a good book of film criticism to be dominated by lavish photos and the like? Not in my experience. The closest to that is the BFI series, and those are hardly the sort of thing "a reader" is talking about. Of all the books on Lynch out there, this is probably my #3, behind Martha Nomchinson's amazing "Wild at Heart in Hollywood" and the essential "Lynch on Lynch."

The simataneous release of the paperback and hardcover editions should have clued "a reader" into the HC edition being a library edition... Don't let this person's stupidty put you off, this is one of the best books analyzing Lynch one can find.