Blue Velvet

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Michael Atkinson (Adjunct Professor of Film at Long Island University, Long Island University, USA)

Blue Velvet

Michael Atkinson (Adjunct Professor of Film at Long Island University, Long Island University, USA)

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BFI Publishing
02 December 2021

Films, movies & cinema; Film theory & criticism; Film movie guides & reviews

Series: BFI Film Classics

For many, Blue Velvet is David Lynch's masterpiece. It represents a unique act of cinema: an

80s Hollywood

studio

film

as radical,

visionary

and

cabalistic as anything

found

in the

avant-garde;

a mysteriously

symbolic

and subterranean

'cult'

movie that

nevertheless

has

recognisable

stars

and was broadly

distributed;

a genre

piece with the

ambience

of

a

fearsome, hyper-composed

nightmare;

an American

'art

film'

by Hollywood's

only reputable

'art

film'

director.

Michael Atkinson’s intricate and layered reading of the film shows how crystallises many of Lynch’s chief preoccupations: the evil and violence underlying the surface of suburbia, the seedy by-ways of sexuality, the frightening appearance of the adult world to a child's eyes, presenting it as the definitive expression of the traumatized innocence which characterizes Lynch's work.

In his afterword to this new edition, Atkinson situates Blue Velvet within a culture that has changed drastically in the 35 years since its release, and in doing so, he considers the film's lasting significance as it slowly turns from contemporary phenomenon to an interpretable artifact.

By: Michael Atkinson (Adjunct Professor of Film at Long Island University Long Island University USA)
Imprint: BFI Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 188mm, Width: 134mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 140g
ISBN: 9781839023712
ISBN 10: 1839023716
Series: BFI Film Classics
Pages: 88
Publication Date: 02 December 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Atkinson is Adjunct Professor of Film at Long Island University, USA. He has written widely on film and culture, in publications including Sight & Sound, The Village Voice, The Guardian, Film Comment, The Criterion Collection, Rolling Stone, and Spin. His books include Ghosts in the Machine: Speculations on the Dark Heart of Pop Cinema (2004), Exile Cinema: Filmmakes at Work Beyond Hollywood (2009) and the novel Hemingway Cutthroat (2010)