The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway

The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime is first of all the detailed reading of David Lynch's The Lost Highway, based on the premises of Lacanian psychoanalysis. Lynch's unique universe of the "ridiculous s…

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