Blue Velvet: A Bloomsbury Movie Guide

by Charles Drazin

Blue Velvet is perhaps avid Lynch's best film to date, and certainly his most well known. Beneath its tranquil, beautifully filmed, small-town ambience, lies violence and depravity on a hideous scale,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582340293
• ISBN13: 9781582340296
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

An excellent appreciation of David Lynch's masterpiece

If you value a literate and intelligent appreciation of a complex film, then this book is for you. It has helped me to understand and enjoy (if this word can be used of such a profoundly disturbing film) 'Blue Velvet' without dispelling any of its poetry. It recognizes that there are no final answers to all the mysteries of this extraordinary film. It avoids jargon, and is accessible to the general reader as well as the movie buff. It doesn't cover `every aspect of the movie' as the book description claims, but this seems to me to be a strength. It avoids a lot of the frankly tedious behind-the-scenes production details in favour of a more personal response. So if you really want to know what the budget was or what sort of lenses Frederick Elmes used in Dorothy's bedroom, then this book probably isn't for you. Indeed, if it has a weakness, it's when it does attempt to give the sort of `all you need to know' movie trivia that the AZ format calls for. But this is a small quibble.

Everything and more!

Drazin's book is an excellent guide to one of David Lynch's greatest films. It contains a breakdown of every aspect of the film and more. It is an excellent way for people to delve deeper into the film and find out Lynch's subtle meanings of style. The only thing lacking from this book is the screenplay. If that is what you are looking for then you'll have to look elsewhere.