Susanne Wigorts Yngvesson

Nothing Is as It Should Be: Estrangement, Threshold-Crossings, and Cosmic Struggle in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet and Lost Highway

This article examines estrangement as a structuring existential and aesthetic principle in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986) and Lost Highway (1997). Through close, plot-attentive readings intended to remain accessible to readers unfamiliar with Lynch, it argues that the films stage three interlocking dynamics: becoming...