{"product_id":"9781839023712","title":"Blue Velvet by Michael Atkinson","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307922403701,"sku":"9781839023712","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781839023712.jpg?v=1762805818","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781839023712","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}