"However, it isn't truly right for television, a medium that by nature deflates the
dualism of the orthodox detective through its unorthodox normalization of shifts
and slippage — and thus its normalization of the vicissitudes of the flesh.3 The
popularity of Dale Cooper is a tacit admission that on a visceral level the
television audience knows how wrong the traditional detective is in that medium.
As we shall see, Dale Cooper made ..."
No End to Her Soap Opera and the Female Subject by MarthaNochimson Published 1993 ISBN-13: 978-0-520-91241-0, ISBN: 0-520-91241-1
The Passion of David Lynch(1st Edition) Wild at Heart in Hollywood by Martha P. Nochimson Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1997 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-75565-9, ISBN: 0-292-75565-1
"Filmmaker David Lynch asserts that when he is directing, ninety percent of the time he doesn't know what he is doing. To understand Lynch's films, Martha Nochimson believes, requires a similar method of being open to the subconscious, of resisting the logical reductiveness of language. In this innovative book, she draws on these strategies to offer close readings of Lynch's films, informed by unprecedented, in-depth interviews with Lync ..."