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Based on a framework consisting of postmodern theories of heterotopias, spatial pastiche, schizophrenic temporality and postmodern speed, this paper seeks to identify cinematic features in the works of the American director David Lynch, which exemplify time and space in postmodernism. Michel Foucault's theory of space will trigger the whole problematic of the time-space relation. This is followed by a discussion of Fredric Jameson's concepts of spatial pastiche and schizophrenic temporality and of the involute interaction between the two

Heterotopia on Screen- Blue Velvet (1986)

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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Based on a framework consisting of postmodern theories of heterotopias, spatial pastiche, schizophrenic temporality and postmodern speed, this paper seeks to...

Heterotopia on Screen- Blue Velvet (1986)

Published Online: May 01, 2014

Page range: 158 - 166

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2014-0020

Keywords
heterotopia, postmodernism, space, time

© Romanian Journal of English Studies

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Heterotopia on Screen- Blue Velvet (1986)

Published Online: May 01, 2014

Page range: 158 - 166

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2014-0020

Keywordsheterotopia, postmodernism, space, time

© Romanian Journal of English Studies

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
heterotopia, postmodernism, space, time