Greg Burris is an assistant professor of Media Studies at the American University of Beirut and the author of The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media, and the Radical Imagination (Temple University, 2019). His other writings on film, culture, and politics have appeared in such publications as CineAction, Cinema Journal, Film Quarterly, Jadaliyya, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and the anthologies Futures of Black Radicalism (Verso, 2017) and Global Raciality: Empire, PostColoniality, and DeColoniality (Routledge, 2018).
“We’ve met before, haven’t we?” – The Mystery Man in Lost Highway * * * David Lynch is not a horror director. With the possible exception of Eraserhead, his films[…]