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“We Cannot Content Ourselves with Remaining Spectators”: Musical Performance, Audience Interaction, and Nostalgia in the Films of David Lynch
- Music and the Moving Image
- University of Illinois Press
- Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 2016
- pp. 3-22
- Article
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This article examines David Lynch’s appropriation of pre-existing popular music as a means to engender a new mode of reception in his films. The director’s uses of Roy Orbison hits serve as case studies for the semiotic analysis of this unique film/spectator interaction.