"The Sublime" in David Lynch's Work

Abstract

This bachelor thesis deals with the category of the Sublime and explores how the Sublime can be used when analyzing the work of David Lynch. The theoretical chapter outlines various concepts of the Sublime, starting from the traditional concepts such as the rhetoric and the natural Sublime, and continues onto modern concepts, including the postmodern, digital, technological, and cinematic Sublime. The practical part analyzes how Lynch's work utilizes different variants of the Sublime and to which concepts it inclines in specific cases. The analysis is performed on works such as Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, and Twin Peaks: The Return.