David Lynch has died at the age of 78. With his death, we have lost the most eccentric of the directors who made their name in the 1980s and 1990s, at the apex of American confidence. The present moment of confusion makes that situation almost unimaginable. But perhaps even more surprising is the post-modern and yet conservative attitude with which Lynch confronted his era. Lynch predicted and dramatized the collapse of the shared American pop culture that triumphed in the mid-20th century America in which he was born and which he loved.
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