Networked David Lynch is a multi-disciplinary reconsideration of Lynch’s œuvre in the context of the challenges and opportunities offered by transmedia environments and networks of the 21st century. This collection builds on state-of-the-art-research concepts like video-graphic criticism and video essays to provide a fresh and important approach to any study of David Lynch’s œuvre. As such, Networked David Lynch is an attractive entry point to current media theory and recent film history, appealing to cinephiles, academics, researchers, and students.
This multi-disciplinary reader provides immediate relevance to university courses focusing on modern film history and on current theory in film, television, and media studies. The scope of approaches featured in the book provides an informative basis for courses on transmedia and media convergence, sound studies, musicology, cultural studies, and American studies.
Marcel Hartwig is a Lecturer in English and American Studies at the University of Siegen. He has contributed to academic readers and international journals in the field of media studies, television studies, literary criticism, gender studies, and popular culture. Currently, he is finalizing his post-doctoral project in the field of transatlantic studies, Transit Cultures: 18th Century Medical Discourses and Knowledge Media in the North American Colonies. He is also co-editor of Media Economies: Perspectives on American Cultural Practices (2014) and the Rock Music Studies special issue on American Rock Journalism (2017).
Andreas Rauscher is a Visiting Professor for Media Culture Studies at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Previously, he was Senior Lecturer at the Department for Media Studies at University of Siegen. He was also Visiting Professor of Media Studies at Christian Albrechts-Universität Kiel and at Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz. His research focuses on film, game, comic, and cultural studies, transmedia aesthetics and genre theory. His publications as an author and co-editor have covered the Simpsons, superhero movies, comics and games, John Carpenter, Star Wars, James Bond and the Czechoslovakian Nová Vlna, in addition to an introduction to Game Studies.
Peter Niedermüller is a Researcher in Musicology and Digital Humanities at University of Mainz. Between 2011 and 2012 he was a Visiting Professor at the German Historical Institute in Rome. In 2019, he was appointed Professor at Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz. His research focuses on studies in musical interpretation and film music. He previously published Klangkultur und musikalische Interpretation. Italienische Dirigenten im 20. Jahrhundert (2018). He is a member of the Kiel Society in the Research of Film Music and a co-editor of the Kieler Beiträge zur Filmmusikforschung.
