Humor as a deconstruction tool in the work of David Lynch

Evgenii Kirillovich Seleznev
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The author of the work raises the question of the role of humor in the context of David Lynch's work. The author argues that the director's humor is one of the few conventional director's tools that can be categorized and studied in detail. The author explains this degree of “simplicity” of the director’s humor phenomenon by the author’s conscious strategy of introducing “known” elements into the works to establish communication with the viewer and their subsequent deconstruction to break the automatic perception and create a situation of “anxious viewing”. The author also explains the emergence of a situation of "anxiety" in Lynch's works by the fact that in the process of deconstruction the director mixes various discourses, connecting "funny" and "creepy", "known" and "unknown", "sublime" and "base". The key thesis of the work is the idea that humor, as Lynch's directorial tool, is used not only to entertain the audience or relieve them after dark scenes, but also to challenge their expectations, question classical narratives and explore taboo aspects of the human being experience. The object of the study is the cinema of David Lynch: films, series and short films of the director. The subject of the research is the phenomenon of humor in the context of David Lynch's creativity. The purpose of the work is to answer the question of how humor contributes to the processes of demythologizing a number of phenomena in American culture, deconstructing classic Hollywood narratives in the director's films and creating a sense of "anxiety" in the viewer. The novelty of the study lies in the conclusion of humor in a separate category and its separation from other strategies of the director: hyper-narratives, the process of absurdization of screen action, postmodern intertextuality.
幽默在大卫·林奇的作品中作为一种解构工具
这部作品的作者提出了幽默在大卫·林奇的作品中所起作用的问题。作者认为,导演的幽默是为数不多的可以分类和详细研究的传统导演工具之一。作者通过有意识地将“已知”元素引入作品中,与观者建立沟通,并对其进行解构,打破自动感知,营造一种“观看焦虑”的情境,来解释导演幽默现象的这种程度的“简单”。作者还通过导演在解构的过程中混合各种话语,将“搞笑”与“诡异”、“已知”与“未知”、“崇高”与“低俗”联系起来,来解释林奇作品中出现的一种“焦虑”局面。这部作品的关键论点是,幽默作为林奇的导演工具,不仅用于娱乐观众或在黑暗场景之后放松他们,而且还用于挑战他们的期望,质疑经典叙事,探索人类经验的禁忌方面。本研究的对象是大卫·林奇的电影:导演的电影,系列和短片。本研究的主题是大卫·林奇创作背景下的幽默现象。这项工作的目的是回答幽默如何有助于美国文化中一些现象的去神话化,解构导演电影中的经典好莱坞叙事,并在观众中创造一种“焦虑”感的问题。本研究的新颖之处在于将幽默作为一个单独的类别,并将其与导演的其他策略分开:超叙事、银幕动作的荒诞化过程、后现代互文性。
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