| Dune Contributor(s): McCrea, Christian (Author) |
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ISBN: 1911325825 ISBN-13: 9781911325826 Publisher: Liverpool University Press OUR PRICE: $27.18 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - Genres - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
| Series: Constellations |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.4" W x 7.4" (0.3 lbs) 112 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
